Thrawn, both Canada and the US use the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program. It's standardized so you can compare apples to apples.
US:VIOLENT CRIME TOTAL
DEFINITION
Violent crime is composed of four offenses: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. All violent crimes involve force or threat of
force.
Year 2000
Number of offenses: 1,424,289
Rate per 100,000 = 506.1
Source:
VIOLENT CRIME TOTAL (US/FBI) Canada:Crimes of Violence
Rate per 100,000 = 981.8
Source:
Crimes of violence (Statistics Canada)Remember these are both according to the UCR standard.. it's essentiallyl "apples to apples."
Canadian assaults:
"Assault level 1" is the first level of assault. It constitutes the intentional application of force without consent, attempt or threat to apply force to another person, and openly wearing a weapon (or an imitation) and accosting or impeding another person.
"Assault with weapon or causing bodily harm" is the second level of assault. It constitutes assault with a weapon, threats to use a weapon (or an imitation), or assault causing bodily harm.
"Aggravated assault level 3" is the third level of assault. It applies to anyone who wounds, maims, disfigures or endangers the life of complainant.
US assaults:
Aggravated assault is an unlawful attack by one person upon another for the purpose of inflicting severe or aggravated bodily injury. This type of assault is usually accompanied by the use of a weapon or by means likely to produce death or great bodily harm.
Attempts are included since it is not necessary that an injury result when a gun, knife, or other weapon is used which could and probably would result in serious personal injury if the crime were successfully completed.
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Sounds pretty close there. Anything that would be counted as "assault" in either place looks like it would show up the same way in the other place.
You have a case on the sexual assault though.
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Canada sexual assaults:
"the definition of sexual assault was broadened in the 1993survey to better capture these incidents as defined by the Criminal Code: while the 1988 survey asked onlyabout experiences of "rape", the 1993 survey asked about forced sexual activity and unwanted sexualtouching.the definition of sexual assault was broadened in the 1993 survey to better capture these incidents as defined by the Criminal Code: while the 1988 survey asked onlyabout experiences of "rape", the 1993 survey asked about forced sexual activity and unwanted sexualtouching.
US sexual assaults:
FORCIBLE RAPE
DEFINITION
Forcible rape, as defined in the Uniform Crime Reporting Program, is the carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will.
Assaults or attempts to commit rape by force or
threat of force are also included; however, statutory rape (without force) and other sex offenses are excluded.
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However, if you toss out the entire "sex offenses" category...
Canada, 78 & 10 per 100,000 in those two Canadian sex categories and toss out the US sex category 32 per 100,000......
it still doesn't change the fact that Canada has significantly more violent crime than the US.
What would it be then? About 900 vs 470?
Careful slinging those rocks around your glass house, eh?
Edited for the specificity that a reply to Thrawn demands. 
