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Originally Posted by Calgarian
Calgary has as many aboriginals as most of the cities you posted, but we don't have the crime, Calgary's problems are mostly drug related. Most of our murders a few years ago were the result of a gang war between Asian gangs, not aboriginals. What percentage of murders in the cities you listed are committed by, or involve aboriginals?
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I cannot find any stats at the moment, but IIRC, Calgary has a far lower percentage of Aboriginals making up the population compared to those other cities mentioned.
Either way, the crux of this argument is not specifically an aboriginal issue, it's a poverty issue. It just happens that the majority of impoverished people in cities like Winnipeg, Thunder Bay, Saskatoon, and Regina are aboriginal.
Calgary has priced itself out of the extreme poverty and crime game. If housing and rent cost as much in Winnipeg as they did in Calgary, our crime level would probably eventually drop to comparable levels - although this just shifts the poverty/crime problem somewhere else. It doesn't solve it.