SOUND OFF: Statistics Canada confirms violent assaults are not ‘anecdotes’
WHEN DAVID EBY DECIDED TO RUN FOR PREMIER, his colleague Murray Rankin was installed as Acting Attorney General.
If you thought Eby wasn’t taking the issue of public safety seriously, you won’t believe what Rankin had the gall to say on Twitter recently. He dismissed Opposition concerns about a violent assault on a mom and toddler in Vancouver’s Chinatown as “anecdotal rhetoric.” He quickly deleted his tweet, but the damage was done.
It seems Rankin, Eby and the NDP just aren’t taking this issue as seriously as the rest of us are — and it provides little assurance this government will do anything to fix its ‘catch and release’ justice system.
While Rankin and Eby prefer to keep their heads in the sand, the latest figures released by Statistics Canada this week clearly show that violent crime in B.C. is getting worse. Our province’s violent Crime Severity Index (CSI) has risen by 30 per cent under Eby’s tenure as Attorney General. It went up nearly 5 per cent between 2020 and 2021.