Mr. Speaker, my hon. colleague is quite right. In general, crime is going down, violent crime too, and there are two reasons for that.
The first is demography. There are more and more older people in our society, and they are not much inclined to violent crime.
The second is the reason that should most give us pause to think things over, and it is that the economy is doing rather well. In general, there is a correlation between economic downturns and crime: when the economy is doing well, there is less crime.
I think that these factors should be taken into account.