Canada’s homicide rate (2023): 1.94
U.S. homicide rate (2023): 6.3
It would seem a little counter intuitive to bring in more U. S. style “justice” to Canada.
The cheapest election campaign promise is to “reduce crime”. We always want less crime, and there will always be enough crime to imagine that there could be less of it. Nobody I know of has managed to reduce it the way they promise except El Salvador which hit upon the novel solution of locking up all the young men with tattoos, or Singapore where you can go to prison for importing chewing gum.
Harper promised it. When he took office the rate was 1.86. When he left it was 1.71. I suppose that .15 % was something. If it wasn’t due to some other random demographic fluctuation.