Objectionable reality

Having said the same thing this time last year, the Justice Minister restates his thesis on crime.

"We don’t govern on the latest statistics," the minister told The Canadian Press in a telephone interview. "What level it’s at right now, it’s unacceptable, and we are committed to disrupting ... criminal activity."

It was a year and a half ago, having heard the Prime Minister say something similar, that Dan Gardner was inspired to pen the phrase "an epistemological claim of staggering primitiveness."