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- Apr 4, 2025
This is something that has always really bothered me. I've experienced this a lot in the real world and in the virtual world where I'll say something about crime, or I'll mention Canada is a dangerous place, and I'll have a bunch of dotards frothing at the mouth telling me: "No, no! Canada is very safe. There is no crime in Canada," and then, without me ever having mentioned it, they'll somehow always bring up how America is apparently "so much more dangerous."
It's very rare that I can have a conversation about crime with people because most times, I'll have to deal with these brainwashed idiots spewing ideology they don't even understand. It's not limited to Canadians either - I notice Americans are often under the same impression that their country is somehow riddled with way more crime than Canada.

Meanwhile, every statistic that I've come across demonstrates that Canada has way higher rates of crime per capita than America, both in terms of property crime and violent crime. The Fraser Institute has this really great article about the whole thing with a bunch of statistics they collected from law enforcement agencies, government websites, and elsewhere. If you don't wanna slosh through it the main points are:
- Since 2014, the rate of violent crime has increased in Canada, and by 2022 was 14% higher than in the U.S.
- Since 2014, the rate of property crime has increased in Canada, and by 2022 was 27.5% higher than in the U.S.
So many people are stuck in the 90s. If you talk about real issues that are happening today, they look at you like you have two heads and they'll mumble something about how Canada is better than America or spew some eLbOwS uP bullshit. Part of the reason the country is in the state that it's in is because denial is a national sport and projection is a national pastime.