The crime rate in Canada has been declining for about 10 years.
So whatever it is we do now is actually working.
That won’t stop Stephen Harper from introducing his mean-spirited “tough on crime” legislation, because it’s a sop to the party base. If the crime rate continues to go down: it worked! But, best of all, if the crime rate actually goes up after his new anti-crime measures, he will simply say that that proves we need even more of them!
(Conrad Black- of all things– after his personal experience of prison– is opposed to Harper’s plans.)