My guess is that the Canadian legal and social system is more sympathetic to rape reports, and therefore it is reported more there, but actually occurs more here.
It's a known fact that canadian women are prettier than the not so bad americans, but then again who want's to give it up to canadian men? that paired with more alcohol in beer makes explains that number.
It's colder in the great white north, which forces the women to be hidden under too many layers of clothing most of the year. Plus, there's only so much hockey and curling that you can watch before you go looking for some better entertainment....
Seriously, I can think of two related reasons. During the 90's, government policy was greatly influenced by feminist analyses of rape. As a result, Canada does not distinguish between rape and other forms of sexual assault--it's all prosecuted as sexual assault, inflating the number of cases compared with other countries. Second, police policy is to prosecute all cases--to prevent charges being dropped due to fear, intimidation, embarassment, etc.
My guess is that the Canadian legal and social system is more sympathetic to rape reports, and therefore it is reported more there, but actually occurs more here.
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It's a known fact that canadian women are prettier than the not so bad americans, but then again who want's to give it up to canadian men? that paired with more alcohol in beer makes explains that number.
ReplyDeleteIt's colder in the great white north, which forces the women to be hidden under too many layers of clothing most of the year. Plus, there's only so much hockey and curling that you can watch before you go looking for some better entertainment....
ReplyDeleteLumberjacks get lonely ya know. Just like in the Monty Python skit, he just wanted the womens clothing to dress up like his dear old ma-ma.
ReplyDeleteAnd after he got her clothes off, well you know.....
And that is the REAL reason.
"It's a known fact that canadian women are prettier than the not so bad americans"
ReplyDeleteYou're joking right? Ha! You can keep em.
Seriously, I can think of two related reasons. During the 90's, government policy was greatly influenced by feminist analyses of rape. As a result, Canada does not distinguish between rape and other forms of sexual assault--it's all prosecuted as sexual assault, inflating the number of cases compared with other countries. Second, police policy is to prosecute all cases--to prevent charges being dropped due to fear, intimidation, embarassment, etc.
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