Perhaps I could suggest then that it is indeed unfortunate that in your comparison of apples to oranges, rather than apples to apples, it's giving the appearance of Canada having a violent crime rate that is double that in the United States of America. I'm going to have difficulty working with a statistic that's not accurate enough for my use in making public policy decisions, because you've already explained that the violent crime rates in Canada are not double those in the United States. They're in fact either similar or less than.
On October 4th, 2006. See this statement in context.