Conservative Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the NDP caused the current crime wave in Canada.. Prison cell .On Thursday in Edmonton, Poilievre spoke about his "common sense plan" to bring home safe streets.."What's happening to our cities?" Poilievre asked as sirens could be heard in the distance in Edmonton.."After eight years of Justin Trudeau and a costly coalition with the NDP, Trudeau and the NDP truly caused this crime with policies that allow the same repeat violent offenders loose on our streets to terrorize people.".Poilievre said Trudeau and the NDP gave Canada crime, chaos, drugs and disorder. Poilievre listed out a series of violent crimes which occurred in Edmonton and Calgary in the last 24 hours.."You have the same violent people back on the street the same day they're arrested, they will do more violence," Poilievre said.."And that's why the data shows when common sense conservatives were in power, crime went down 23%. With this coalition, this crazy coalition of Trudeau and the NDP have been in power. Crime is up 32%.".Poilievre talked about criminals in Vancouver.."The same 40 offenders were arrested 6,000 times. Let me say that again — the same 40 people arrested 6,000 times in a year," Poilievre said.."That's 150 arrests per offender per year. We don't have a lot of criminals in Canada. It's a very small level that do the vast majority of the crime. Yes, common sense plans to bring home safe streets and catch and release. Jail, not bail for repeat violent offenders.".Poilievre said he believes Canada should ban hard drugs and stop giving out taxpayer-funded drugs and invest in rehabilitation and treatment and sue the big pharmaceutical companies that caused the drug crisis so Canada can recover billions of dollars to pay for that treatment.."That way we bring home our brothers, our sisters, our friends and neighbours. Drug-free is that common sense approach. That is proven to work. We can do it again," Poilievre said.."We understand everything in Canada is broken after eight years and Trudeau and a costly coalition."
