His used the refrain "guns, gangs and drug crime" to focus his aim and then used the word "terror" and streets in the same sentence.

"When I pointed out to someone at our table that crime rates have actually been dropping for a couple of decades," he continued, "they looked at me as if I had escaped from an asylum. Since everyone 'knows' that crime is much worse, I was obviously delusional."

Then there's the spectre of "guns, gangs and drug crime" that Prime Minister [Stephen Harper] raised.