Canada's Crime Rate 50 % Higher than U.S.

Newsmax ^ | Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2006 2:59 p.m. EST | not disclosed

[School of Rational Thought]

Press reports that Canada is a Shangri-la – an America with free health care and less crime – may be short sighted.

In fact, statistics show that the violent crime rate there is double that of the United States

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He also cites the most recent complete data available from both countries that shows that in 2003, the violent crime rate in the United States was 475 per 100,000 people; while up north, there were 963 violent crimes per 100,000 people. The figure for sexual assault in Canada per 100,000 people was more than double that of the United States: 74 as opposed to 32.1; and the assault rate in Canada was also more than twice that of the states: 746 to America's 295 for the people.

Moreover, he cites research that showed the figure for sexual assault in Canada per 100,000 people was more than double that of the United States: 74 as opposed to 32.1; and the assault rate in Canada was more than twice that of the United States: 746 to America’s 295. Also, in 2005, Toronto had 78 murders; that’s a 28 percent increase in homicides since 1995.

[School of Rational Thought]

This is a bit old, but I didn't see it previously.

[montag813]

My Dem Dad thinks Canada's health system is paradise. He said he has "never heard any Canadian" he knows report any problems with it. Any one have stories, links or personal experiences they can give me to get back to him with?

[MatD]

Start here:
http://www.onthefencefilms.com/video/deadmeat/

[GOPJ]

Higher crime rate - more gun control. The two go hand in hand.

[WilliamWallace1999]

http://www.heritage.org/Research/HealthCare/HL702.cfm

[WilliamWallace1999]

http://www.heritage.org/Research/HealthCare/HL702.cfm

[edcoil]

This is a joke right, he must have never used the canadian services. Later this year there is a movie being released how AIDS patients in prision sold their blood to canadian health care via Clinton... Tell him to watch it.

[Steely Tom]

Wait a minute. You mean to tell me a bunch of leftists tried to make the case that life in a socialist country was better in every way than life in mean old America, and that it later came out that they weren't telling the truth? Knock me over with a feather.

(steely)

[Uncle Miltie]

He said he has "never heard any Canadian" he knows report any problems with it.

In our Fargo Synagogue, 75% of the doctors are Canadian Healthcare refugees. They quit Canada because they can't treat patients properly and they can't make money.

[mewzilla]

Have your pop to check article out for starters :)

[mewzilla]

And has he ever had a chance to spend some time in a country that has socialized medicine? I have. Cured me for life :)

[38special]

Tons of Canadien nurses working in the Houton, TX area medical industry. I know, I've dated a few.

[Andyman]

After 6 months of Dr. visits, my MIL showed up at the hospital for shoulder surgery on the day she was told to appear. At the admitting desk they told her to come back later. . . two months later. After that time, she showed up again, on the agreed-upon date. They sent her home AGAIN. On the third try, 6 months AFTER her initial scheduled date, she got the surgery she needed so she could use her right arm properly again.

[Peach]

I never knew that Canada's crime rate would double ours. That's a HUGE increase.

What is their gun ownership policy?

[Tokra]

My Dem Dad thinks Canada's health system is paradise. He said he has "never heard any Canadian" he knows report any problems with it. Any one have stories, links or personal experiences they can give me to get back to him with?

My Dem Dad thinks the same thing. I've told him (and you should tell your dad) to come to Detroit and see the Canadians coming over the bridge or tunnel by the hundreds to get health care in the US because they were tired of waiting for it in Canada.

When I went in for a heart cath last year, there was a man from Canada in the waiting room with me. He had to wait for over a year to get it done in Canada, so he decided to come over to the US and pay cash to have it done right away.

I talk to many Canadians who come over for the very same reason. At least these folks have the money to be able to do it. I feel sorry for Canadians who can't afford it and have to wait out the delay to get needed medical procedures done.

Anyone who lives in a US/Canada border city will tell you the same thing.

[JoeGar]

My Dem Dad thinks Canada's health system is paradise.

I vacationed in St. Johns, New Brunswick, last summer; and I heard many public service announcements on radio telling locals that the hospital emergency room was closed due to a lack of doctors. If one had a medical emergency, he was instructed to see his family physician -- for trauma, premature childbirth, etc. -- everything.

Also, see the article, "Unsocialized Medicine" at http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110006813

[pabianice]

Why not? It's disarmed citizens can only scream in terror as laughing armed criminals assault them and their homes.

[Paleo Conservative]

The ethnicity of the criminals wasn't mentioned.

[xarmydog]

I have a Canadian couple who vacation in Texas every year.They retired early from the timber business fairly well off.A few years ago,they had to cut their vacation short because Dan didn't feel good.He said ,I think I have stomach cancer.They went back to Canada and sure enough,he had stomach cancer!They gave him his first appt.for 6 mths.later!You guessed it,straight to America he came.They got it just in time.If he had waited,he would be dead.He says he feels bad for the people who couldn't afford to do what he did.As kids you sit around the campfire telling scary stories about the boogeyman.As adults,we sit around the campfire telling scary stories about health care!

[doc30]

I'm from the WIndsor, Ontario region. People there do go to Detroit for treatment. Since I left the city, the government closed two of the four hospitals in order to save money. My grandmother had to waited in a hospital bed for rehab for a stroke. She died after two years of waiting. My mom has MS and there are no facilities for 100 miles that can treat her condition. There are no family doctors seeing new patients and there are no OB/Gyn's in the area that are seeing new patients. I know graduated from the University of Windsor nursing program. At the on-campus nursing job fairs, there are dozens of recruiters. All but one are from the U.S. THe one Canadian hospital that was recruiting was there to let graduates know that they may have an openning in a few years when people retire, assuming they will be allowed to fill the position. Canada has become the health care educator for the U.S. All the talent moves there. The abysmal history of rationed-care goes on and on.

Remember to correct anyone that called Canada's health care system "socialized" that the correct term is 'government rationed.' When they say they want socialized medicine like Canada has, you ask them if they mean government-rationed or government-restricted health care.