El Salvador is now safer than Canada
Justice & Anti-CorruptionEl Salvador
- Omissions
- The claim relies on homicide rate as the sole metric for 'safety', ignoring other crime categories such as property crime, sexual violence, and gang-related activity where Canada may perform differently
- Canada's official 2024 homicide rate of 1.91 was published by Statistics Canada on December 2, 2025, which the MEP could have known by January 21, 2026
- El Salvador's dramatic security improvement follows controversial emergency measures and mass arrests since 2022
- The comparison uses the most favorable recent period for El Salvador, which has seen unprecedented crime reduction under the Bukele administration
- No single comprehensive 'safety index' comparing both countries was cited; the claim appears based on homicide rate comparisons