It didn’t take much of a drop in crime rates for the cadre of experts opposing tighter bail rules and tougher laws to declare that, surprise, tighter bail rules and tougher laws are not needed.
Canadians have been duped into believing that crime is a big problem, and hoodwinked into supporting the federal Liberals’ (kinda) tough-on-crime crackdown. Or so the story goes. The proof? Statistics Canada’s annual release of crime statistics, which found that crime rates dropped in 2025. What’s more, the crime severity index declined, as did the violent crime severity index.
