The federal Liberals have introduced a nationwide summit on auto theft geared toward getting provinces and business officers collectively to handle the rising subject of automobiles being stolen and shipped overseas.
The federal government says an uptick in stolen automobiles has prompted it to plan a Feb. 8 assembly to cease organized crime from profiting off of automobiles stolen on Canadian streets.
The Liberals level to business estimates which state the charges of auto theft went up in Quebec by half in 2022 in contrast with the 12 months prior, and to an identical diploma in Ontario.
They are saying police throughout the Better Toronto Space have seen carjackings double throughout that point and soar 300 per cent since 2015.
The federal government says gangs steal automobiles and work with organized-crime teams to ship them to the Center East and Africa, or use them inside Canada to commit crimes earlier than destroying the automobiles.
That’s regardless of Ottawa insisting it has sturdy legal guidelines geared toward stopping thefts and monitoring protocols meant to cease the stolen automobiles from being exported in delivery containers.
