Crime and violent crime in Canada

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The NSCOESN team members enjoyed watching the near hour long Stephen Harper interview on July 28, 2025 for the Council of State Governments’ Midwestern Legislative Conference held at Saskatoon’s TCU Place, Saskatchewan.1

We captured several quotes, and encourage you to watch the entire interview by Victor Thomas, president and CEO of the Canada-India Business Council.

We have included one clip of just over 3 minutes long where Harper discusses his advice to Prime Minister Carney on CANUS trade and finding alternative trading partners, including Europe and India.

Stephen Harper discusses Canada-U.S. relations at Saskatoon conference – July 28, 2025

As a sidenote, the event was held in Saskatoon. Saskatoon has 30 active crime groups, spread across approximately 317,000 people including the surrounding area.

Think about that for a moment. The Saskatoon Police Service has approximately 500 constables and special constables.2 If each of those 30 active crime groups have a conservative estimate of 50 members per, thats 1,500 criminals involved in organized crime. That number is worse if there are more members per crime group. Consider the risk (likelihood vs. consequences) if each of those criminal group members chose to pickup a firearm with the intent to target the local police. It is a good thing criminal groups don’t tend to all work together!

StatCan measures Canada’s crime severity index (CSI) which considers the volume and severity of police reported crimes. Their data just released July 22, 2025.3 You will need to download the entire data set to see the breakdowns of the metropolitan areas and cities.

Canada Crime Report summarized the data very well from 2010 to presently available data of 2024.4

IDCityCSIViolent CSI
1️⃣Winnipeg MB130.9199.1
2️⃣Edmonton AB109.3122.0
3️⃣Saskatoon SK106.7142.5
4️⃣Vancouver BC92.996.4
5️⃣Surrey BC86.579.4
6️⃣Montréal QC75.7112.5

StatCan now reports Saskatoon data, updated July 30, 2025, with a CSI of 117.49 and violent CSI at 159.83.5

  1. https://www.youtube.com/live/D4r9S0lcw3o?si=PAzPXR9er9nj5YsQ ↩︎
  2. https://leadersinternational.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/OppProfile_Saskatoon-Police-Service_Police-Chief_FINAL.pdf ↩︎
  3. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/subjects/crime_and_justice/crimes_and_offences/crime_severity_index ↩︎
  4. https://canadacrimereport.com/crime-severity-index?min_population=250000&sort=crime_severity_index&direction=desc ↩︎
  5. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3510006101 ↩︎

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