CRIME RATE 66% HIGHER IN THE PRAIRIE PROVINCES
THAN IN THE FOUR STATES SOUTH OF THE BORDER

“These two reports expose two Liberal deceptions; one, that Canadian gun laws
reduce crime; and two, that more legally-owned guns results in more crime.”

Yorkton – Today, Saskatchewan M.P., Garry Breitkreuz, Conservative Firearms Critic, released two Library of Parliament research papers that concluded:

“Comparing average crime rates for 2003 in the three prairie provinces and in the four bordering states as presented in the report for those crimes that are similarly defined and measured in both countries, we found that, in total, both violent and property crime rates were two thirds higher in the Canadian prairie provinces than in the four border states. Average crime rates were higher in the Canadian Prairies for all crimes with comparable definitions and statistics in the U.S.A.: Homicide – 1.1x higher; Aggravated assault, assault with a weapon and attempted murder – 1.5 x higher; Robbery – 2.1x higher; Breaking and Entering – 2.3x higher; and Motor Vehicle Theft – 3.2x higher.”

Breitkreuz, a long time foe of useless gun control laws, requested an update of a 1995 paper prepared by former Member of Parliament, Mr. Lee Morrison. Morrison’s paper and this paper compared crime rates in the Prairie Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta with crime rates in the bordering United States of Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, and Idaho. The Parliamentary Research Branch of the Library of Parliament published the first paper on March 7, 2005, entitled: A Comparison of Violent and Firearm Crime Rates in the Canadian Prairie Provinces and Four U.S. Border States, 1961-2003. http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/publications/LibraryReport_PrairieCrimeRates_2005_03_07.doc

The Saskatchewan M.P. requested further analysis of the 2003 crime data provided in Tables 6 and 8 of the first paper and on April 20, 2005, the Library researchers published their second paper entitled: Follow-up to “A Comparison of Violent and Firearm Crime Rates in the United States and Canada.”
http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/publications/LibraryReport_PrairieCrimeFollowUp_2005_04_20.doc

“Lee Morrison’s first report in 1995 and these updates of his research ten years later, expose two Liberal deceptions; one, that Canadian gun laws reduce crime; and two, that more legally-owned guns results in more crime. If only the Liberals would have listened to us in 1995 we could have saved taxpayers two-billion dollars,” concluded Breitkreuz.

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26 avril 2005 TAUX D’INFRACTIONS PLUS ÉLEVÉ DE 66 % DANS LES PROVINCES DES PRAIRIES QUE DANS LES QUATRE ÉTATS FRONTALIERS