A few months after holding a summit on vehicle theft, Ottawa wanted to review the various modifications made to combat this scourge and which would have made it possible to put an initial brake on vehicle theft in the country.
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Earlier this month, the Insurance Bureau of Canada reported a 19% drop in vehicle thefts in the first half of 2024 compared to the same period in 2023.
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has also managed to intercept more than 1,900 vehicles stolen from rail yards and ports since the start of 2024, including 1,100 in Quebec, according to the most recent data.
Nearly 600 of these vehicles were recovered during an operation carried out at the port of Montreal last April.
This is an increase in interceptions in Canada compared to the previous year, when 1,806 stolen vehicles were found by the end of 2023.
“The updates regarding the Action Plan released today demonstrate significant progress in our fight against this complex crime,” responded Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Public Safety, Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs, on Wednesday.
Remember that among the initiatives put in place after the summit last February, Ottawa added new offenses to the Criminal Code in order to punish the use of violence to commit vehicle theft, links with organized crime and possession or the distribution of electronic tools to commit theft.
