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Originally Posted by someone123
If you dig into the data though they say that the rate of murder of women by their partners or family is the highest of any province in Quebec.
You can colour a map red and green but at the end of the day it's a relatively low murder rate in any province and the murder rate for women is lower than it is for men (but can be high for specific subgroups like sex workers). It would be nice if the murder rate were 0 but I find the way this issue is presented to be somewhat misleading and unhelpful. It's not really a "men vs. women" issue, it's a tiny number of murderers causing the murders. Sure, they happen to be male, but the vast majority of men are not murderers and the vast majority of Canadian women have a very low risk of being murdered.
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So this confirms my suspicions about this particular issue in Quebec but all those women who died violent deaths are still dead. Regardless who killed them.
Assuming these are rates per 100,000, 2 per 100,000 is still high-ish, when you consider safe-ish cities have murder rates for everyone (including men, who make up the vast majority of victims) of 2 per 100,000 or even lower.
In theory one could argue there isn't much difference between a murder rate of 5-6 per 100,000, which tends to be the high end you find in Canada (in say Winnipeg) versus cities where it's 1 or 2.
Even 20 no, since we're talking about "per 100,000 people"?