[Gaunt]

I make my home in Ottawa, a city of about 800,000 people. Last week a real tragedy occurred here, an eldrly man with a history of relatively minor mental problems beat his elderly wife to death in her bed with an axe.

This is of course awful and tragic, so why does this event make my extra-pleased to live in Canada?

Beacuse this awful event, happening on the second week of May, was Ottawa's first murder of the year. I dare you to find a city in the world of comperable size which can say that.