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- From: todd@ai07.elcom.nitech.ac.jp (Todd Law)
- Subject: Re: Crime in Canada vs U.S. Why the difference?
- In-Reply-To: lmcjamo@egg.ericsson.se's message of 22 Jan 93 20:44:47 GMT
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 01:36:32 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.204447.23571@exu.ericsson.se> lmcjamo@egg.ericsson.se (Jacques Morris) writes:
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- >Wrong. The metro is nowhere close to being the most dangerous place in MTL.
- >The vote usually goes to the McGill ghetto. (mostly university students, about
- >10 blocks from nearest metro).
-
- Well, the ghetto begins at Sherbrooke and University, which is about
- 1 block from the President Kennedy/University entrance to McGill
- metro, which I've been through about 3,000 times. Lived in the
- ghetto in 3 different locations for 4 years, never had a problem,
- never saw a problem, never met anyone who had a problem. Perhaps
- you read and believed the McGill Daily just a little too much.
-
- Perhaps a worse place than the metro is the St. Charles area that
- everyone says is so bad, but I've never been there.
-
- >And the U.S. have no wealth?
- >I would explain the difference here as a more socialist approach to the
- >distribution of this wealth in Canada.
-
- You're probably partly right. But I still maintain that Canadians
- wealth largely falls into their laps via natural resources, more
- so than the US. There are easier ways to get wealth in Canada,
- and we are the least entrepreneurial G7 nation. Consider that
- we are the only G7 country to not have our own automaker (now,
- someone will bring up the ever-popular Bricklyn counterarguement).
- It's much simpler to cut down trees and ship them overseas for
- processing than, God forbid, try to do it in Canada. We even buy
- hockey sticks from Finland, and ALL of our skis are foreign made.
- Canadians work hard (cutting down trees is hard work - you should
- try it), but we are not industrious.
-
- >#1 crime capital in the states: Washington, a town of less than 1 million
- > people. Size is not the problem in this city; It might be the segregation
-
- 1 million is small?
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-
- Todd Law
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