"It was an excellent meeting," said Rezac. "We were impressed at how committed and positive Dr Sheikh and his staff were to the need for change." Subsequent to the meeting with StatsCan, Treasury Board President, Vic Towes, interviewed by Globe and Mail reporter, Bill Currie, (See: 'Towes supports new crime measure," 25 Mar 09) on The Vancouver Board of Trade's call for broader and more frequent vicimization surveys by StatsCan, said "It's a good idea."
The Vancouver Board of Trade has expressed the view for a number of years that better measures of crime are required for the justice system to adequately respond to the needs and expectations of the public. Victims of violent crime numbered 2.7 million Canadians in the last Statistics Canada victims’ survey in 2004, and 650,000 were injured. One Canadian in four reported being a victim of crime.
The Board's meeting with StatsCan was covered in the Globe and Mail Online 25 March 09. Also see the Board of Trade editorial, 21 July 08, published in the Vancouver Sun and National Post, that gave rise to this meeting with StatsCan.
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Congratulations to the Vancouver Board of Trade. This is really a landmark change to address crime. The Board has spent the last decade in the policy arena re: crime and they have hung in there thru the ebbs and flows of public support for the issue. Time will show that this clearer way of reporting crime will be one of the Board's lasting legacies, along with the Debt Clock and devolution of airports in Canada.
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