Apparently, this is becoming a trend. Watch this wild video:
Here's more from the CBC's story published on Wednesday (yeah, I know, the CBC did actual journalism!):
In the same lot, journalists found dozens of other vehicles, some with Canadian licence plates, often with their provincial registration and insurance documents still in the glove box.
All had been reported stolen from Ontario and Quebec. In 2021, there were just over 27,000 vehicles stolen from Ontario alone, according to a recent report by the Canadian Financing and Leasing Association. That's a car stolen every 17 minutes.
Crime is so rampant in liberal cities that perps can tag a car in a parking lot, follow the tracker at 3AM to steal it out of a driveway (the guy in the video says this has happened TWICE to him), drive it all the way to a port, load it on a ship, and send it through international waters and customs to West freaking Africa.
Criminals used to just chop the cars up and part them out so they wouldn't be caught. Now we're so bad at prosecuting criminals that they can literally ship them with the owner's registration info and license plates STILL ON THE VEHICLE halfway around the world.
"A large portion of them are leaving the country," said Det.-Sgt. Mark Haywood of Peel Regional Police. "You'll see about 80 per cent of them going out through the ports."
In 2022, police and insurers said there was a never-before-seen billion dollars worth of cars stolen in Canada. It has the country's insurance industry warning of much higher premiums on the most targeted vehicles, and of the potential that some vehicles could be uninsurable.
Criminals aren't courageous. They don't take big risks like this unless it's easy and the payout is worth it. The only way they're getting away with shipping new F-150s to Ghana is because no one is stopping them.
"There is no doubt that vehicle theft has reached a national crisis in this country," said Terri O'Brien, president and CEO of Équité Association, which investigates insurance fraud on behalf of member insurance companies.
Her organization points to surging rates of theft just in 2022:
- Ontario up 48.3 per cent year over year.
- Quebec up 50 per cent year over year.
- Alberta up 18.3 per cent year over year (after several years of decline).
- Atlantic Canada up 34.5 per cent year over year.
WILD! ARE YOU TIRED OF POLITICIANS BEING SOFT ON CRIME YET?
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