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© 2024 AFPCanada faces national crisis of rising car thefts
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Quo Primum
Interesting, because it was Trudeau's policies that largely caused the recent car-theft problem in the first place.
His Liberal Party's policies include Criminal Code amendments in 2022 that allowed house arrest for people sentenced to less than two years and who aren't considered a risk to public safety.
That included car thieves.
So now he's announcing "stiffer penalties" even though there already were stiffer penalties in place before he put in place a soft-on-crime stance?
Bad enough that he has the nerve. Even worse that the media largely omits this information, in yet another brazen act of media election interference.
bass4funk
So much for the safety of that country.
Ricky Kaminski13
he will go down as one of the worst leaders in history. True dough. How has he hung on so long Canada?
Jimizo
Perhaps his longevity indicates he isn’t as bad as the partisans state.
Judging leaders inevitably involves political bias. Maybe longevity can be a more objective metric.
A leader thrown out after one term doesn’t sound like a success objectively speaking.
Trudeau has done much better than that.
Spidey
Interesting how people blame the ones trying to stop the thefts instead of the ones that are perpetrating them.
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bass4funk
When you look at the record of accomplishments then it is despite any political onslaughts
Not when it involves the masses of that country being hit hard by social and economic policies that hurt the majority
That can be viewed in multiple ways.
He really has...
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/giesbrecht-trudeau-has-irreparably-damaged-our-country
JeffLee
One of very many "crises" these days for that blighted country. Canada is getting really bad really quickly on so many levels. Safe, clean and cohesive Japan is paradise by comparison.
WA4TKG
Everyone knows these cars are put into containers on ships before the engine oil gets cold.
Antiquesaving
Who is trying to stop theft?
Trudeau? The police?
Is that a joke?
https://globalnews.ca/news/10359055/leave-car-keys-the-front-door-to-avoid-home-invasion-toronto-police/
Yes that is right, police in Toronto and other parts of Canada are actually saying to leave car keys near the entrance so thieves can steal your car easier!
They phrase it as "to avoid confrontation with Thieves"
But this is Canada today in a nutshell!
BC decriminalize drugs and what do you think happened? Crime and drugs needles everywhere. All went up, so now they are recriminalizing it.
Imagine this. If you are drinking a beer on the street you could face a fine, but if you're shooting up drugs well that was okay, that was what the laws were in BC with decriminalization of drugs.
You can smoke meth but don't smoke a cigarette. That'll get you a fine. This is the new Canada!
Trying to go into Tim Hortons in Montreal without being confronted by drug addicts and beggars is quite a task!
We didn't see this when I left Canada a little over 30 years ago!
Trudeau has done a great job telling Canadians everything is OK do whatever you want ignore everything we knew and conventional thinking and morals are a thing of the past.
You know what else was nearly a thing of the past?
Syphilis, gonorrhea, HIV, etc .. in 2016 there were four cases of congenital syphilis today 117 in 2016 there were 3,800 cases of syphilis today that is 14,000 cases of syphilis in adults.
Meth use up, drug use up, overdose deaths at epidemic levels.
Yep the everything goes all lifestyles are OK policies of the Trudeau government are really working!
Jaswinder Sandhu
We lost one car and our neighbours have lost two of them from Brampton, near Toronto. It is hell of a dread here for these thefts.
WoodyLee
Better pull that mattress and the wife out of the bedroom and move them into your Truck, it's like these teen days again, LOL
theFu
One of the pluses in driving an older vehicle is that nobody is going to steal it, even for parts. Between 2-10 yrs old, cars are worth more for the parts they have than anything else. A "beater" is the technical term. I drive a "beater".
Use your garages people. Keep them inside. Definitely don't park on the street or in a public parking garage overnight.
Antiquesaving
Doesn't really make a difference!
They just break into the garage and take it anyway!
As I pointed out, they are actually breaking into homes to search for the keys!
If they are doing that, then breaking into the isn't a problem and I won't be surprised when Canadian police recommend leaving the keys in the car in the garage and not locking it so people don't end up "being confronted by the criminals"
yoshisan88
I love how people just start blaming the PM and whinge about other things without even trying to find out the real reason car theves are so high in Canada
https://driving.ca/column/motor-mouth/auto-theft-national-summit-canada-politics-liberal
A little googleing I found this article, it tells the reasons why it happens in Canada.
In shorts, it is because it pays very well. Chance of getting caught is low. Even you are caught you only get a slap on the wrist. Canadian export check is very lax.
wallace
Do cars still have keys?
owzer
People set up stings to bust creeps for preying on kids. Why not set up some stings, make an example out of the thieves and put the whole thing on YT?
mrtinjp
We lost one car and our neighbours have lost two of them from Brampton, near Toronto. It is hell of a dread here for these thefts.
Well, you know these crimes are dominated by one specific community , and they are at the top of organized crime in Canada, hope Canada elects a more sane leader who goes all out after organized crime.
proxy
Canada is struggling under the weight of several national crises; housing crisis, affordability crisis, drug crisis, social disorder crisis, corruption crisis, government spending crisis, productivity crisis, falling GDP/capita crisis, over immigration crisis, healthcare collapse crisis and the biggest is a crisis in democracy.
It has been a week since it was reported that some sitting parliamentarians and high ranking media executives in Canada have been working for hostile foreign governments and Trudeau refuses to name them or even say who they are before the nest election. The assumption, rightly or wrongly is that high ranking cabinet members are some of them and possibly even Trudeau himself. That assumption has further eroded public trust in government
Trudeau tries to blame everything on the previous government that has been out of power for a decade.
The car theft crisis is a minor distraction.
Gene Hennigh
Fortunately, none of this is happening in any other country; not the US especially. Maybe no one should go to Canada and its problems. Stay wherever you live. It's better than Canada.
Peter Neil
it sounds more like a good idea for all so-called leaders.
call me crazy, but maybe someone should open up containers and see what’s inside before they’re loaded on a ship.
Antiquesaving
Now you ask why blame Trudeau?
Did you read your own comment?
Let me help!
Now who is responsible for the lax export check and the "only a slap on the wrist"?
Let me help again: Trudeau.
He is responsible for the laws that were "relaxed" because as he put it "too many marginalized were in prison" and he cut the budgets to the police, CBSA in order to pay Ukraine and every fringe group he thinks will give him their vote!
It isn't Joe Blow on the street whose car was stolen making the laws lacks letting criminals off !
桜川雪
Good on them. Finally standing up to the tow trucks that constantly tow vehicles for not parking in the right spot, parking too Long, etc. Fight the power
Antiquesaving
Because in Canada if the person doing the sting isn't a police officer with authorisation then believe it or not the person doing the sting will be the one being arrested for violating the theft's rights and privacy by recording them and posting on the web.
Unless it is a conversation in with both parties are present and involved (a so-called one party consent) then the thief will be let off and probably sue the person that recorded him!
Welcome to the alternate universe
HooKnows
I lived for 2 years in London, Ontario about 6 years ago when doing some post grad work at Western.
Drove a decent shape Chevy Blazer I had owned for 10 years at that point. Great 4wd vehicle, perfect for the snow.
In the two years I lived there, it was stolen TWICE. Each time car locked, keys with me. Recovered a few days later in a McDonalds parking lot and and the second time in a mall parking lot.
Never had any other break ins or grand theft auto in the decade plus driving in the US.
It got to be such an issue my family bought me “The Club” for my birthday…
never had any other break ins after that but man I was ready to leave.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Well in the US they just break in to steal valuables rather than lifting the entire car.
Sh1mon M4sada
To be fair, the more marginalised the population, the more votes Trudeau gets, so why would he change anything if it benefits him politically.
The conservatives on the other hand are obsessed with looking after their corporate masters, the resources hoardes, the traditional values zealots.
The middle class has no one and will wither away. Sad really.
V Campbell
If you want quickly rising car theft due to political policies, try San Francisco. They are the experts in having cars stolen.
PTownsend
Montreal and Toronto both have good public transportation systems, by relying less on privately owned vehicles, people could save boatloads of money doing so, maybe enough to afford shifting to a place near a commuter station.
Where are the capitalist businesses with money-making ways to address this and other problems.
Cracks me up to see 'conservatives' blaming government for a problem, then expecting government to solve that same problem. What would a 'conservative' government do to deter crime that's not already being done, perhaps put the criminals in a concentration camp like a 'conservative' US politician wants to do, would that satisfy the bloodlust of conservatives.
Strangerland
The Great Replacement Theory, Canada version.
Shadows of the Rising Sun
It's happening in Japan too.
My Japanese father-in-law talks about it a lot :)
Is anywhere immune to rising car thefts? Is it something to do with the new tech the thieves are using?
Surge in luxury car thefts in Japan spurs call for preventative measures - The Japan Times
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/05/21/japan/crime-legal/japan-luxury-car-thefts/
Car thefts on the rise in Japan as vehicle prices remain high - The Japan Times
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/08/28/japan/crime-legal/cars-theft-rise-japan/
Sh1mon M4sada
LOL, looks like political expediency to me...if only Trudeau has that much 'white' matter, pardon the pun.
owzer
No castle law in Canada? Beat the s*it out of them if they touch your car. You can still leak video without it coming back to you.
Entuojo
Wasn't Joe Blow the mayor of Toronto around a decade ago?