QUESTION PERIOD — Public Safety
Crime Rates
September 18, 2024
Along the same lines, Senator Gold, the May 28 edition of La Presse reads as follows:
The Quebec City police force, the SPVQ, unveiled its annual report on Tuesday. In 2023, SPVQ officers recorded a rise in all types of crime.
Crimes against the person, the most serious, increased again last year. The SPVQ reported 9,019 of them.
The same article mentions a 6.6% rise in violent crime in a single year, which points to a continuing trend.
The overview published on the Statistics Canada website reads as follows:
The volume and severity of police-reported crime in Canada, as measured by the Crime Severity Index (CSI), increased for the third consecutive year . . . an upward trend that began in 2015.
What happened in 2015 that could have caused crime rates to start rising since then?
Kudos to you for that attempt to make connections between things that are utterly unrelated. Unfortunately, the rising crime rate is an issue of concern to all of us, regardless of our ideology. Granted, the approach of the government I represent differs from that of your political party. We’re going to keep focusing on causes and on effective ways to reduce crime.
May I suggest that one of the reasons for this situation is your government’s lax approach?
You are free to make suggestions, honourable senator. I always take you seriously, but this time I have to say, with all due respect, that I completely disagree with you.
