Doug Shipley at the Public Safety and National Security Committee

On February 26th, 2024. See this statement in context.

February 26th, 2024 / 4:55 p.m.

Conservative

Doug Shipley Conservative Barrie—Springwater—Oro-Medonte, ON

Thank you for that.

I'll go back to Deputy Chief Johnson.

In your opening remarks, you mentioned a “spike in auto thefts” over the last few years and an “epidemic in this country”. Those are some of your words. You mentioned that there were 1,300 offenders. I'm not sure if it was you or the other chief that mentioned about repeat offenders.

Could you just mention what's really driving this? Why is it increasing so much?

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