Crime has been at the top of the political agenda in Ottawa since the start of the year, and a new report card from one of Canada’s leading think tanks helps explain why.
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s third justice report card, released earlier this month, indeed makes for grim reading. Most alarmingly, the report shows that the narrative of increasing violent crime on our streets is not a mere figment of “if it bleeds, it leads” media sensationalism, but, in fact, is a real phenomenon backed by reams of hard data. (Disclosure: I was briefly employed by MLI as an editor last year.)
