Madam Speaker, I would be the first to agree that many of the examples are of very horrendous things.
I practise medicine, and one of the things we have learned in medicine, but this goes for all fields, is that when we describe individual occurrences and anecdotes, we know that the plural of “anecdote” does not equal data. According to Statistics Canada, the crime rate, the crime severity index, the police-reported crime per 100,000, the youth crime rate and the homicide rate in Canada are all decreasing.
How is our system not working, when indicators across Canada are showing things are improving?