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Unreported Crime Rate is Alarming? So’s Stockwell Day.

8/3/2010

Posted by Patti under Canadian Politics

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I watched CPAC’s feed this morning of a news conference given by Stockwell Day and Denis Lebel. Since I don’t speak French and that is all Lebel spoke in, I can’t comment on anything he said. In some ways, I came away from watching that feed wishing Day spoke anything but English and was in anyone’s government but the government of Canada.

When asked to comment on the government’s tough on crime agenda and the associated costs in among his convoluted response was a reference to first of all comparing current crime statistics to the crime rate back in the 60′s, some fourty years ago. Then he confounded just about everyone by referring to the statistic on unreported crime and how alarming they are. (more…)