First off, 'his country' doesn't disagree with him.
Second, the report you cited doesn't disagree with him either.
As per usual you conflate a variety of different things and draw conclusions not supported by your own evidence.
Look at homicides as the definitive statistic, they don't go under reported, you can use the same number year after year.
Your offenses above will include any instance in which a gun was present in any other crime, whether loaded or not, fired or not or pointed or not.
Yes numbers of shootings are up some, though well below all time highs, and vastly lower than U.S. levels on rate basis.
Be that as it may.....
You're not wrong to note that Edmonton has a much higher homicide/violent crime rate that Montreal or Toronto or Vancouver. Curiously, also true of small cities in Saskatchewan and New Brunswick and Manitoba too; and northern Ontario.........
Have you noticed the connection yet Richard? Because those statistics actually overlap with the highest legal rates of gun ownership in Canada.
One reason you will soon see laws toughened here.
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