What we saw, and this is what caused us to raise the alarm when we were last here, is that we have the same vehicles in Canada, largely, as you would see on U.S. roads, but we actually have an immobilizer standard in Canada, which you don't have in the United States. Every vehicle comes fitted with an immobilizer, and yet theft rates here were far higher. That led us to investigate why it was happening, and it turns out it's because they could be easily exported out of market, which is harder to do in the United States.
To your question around the technology, companies are constantly evolving, but the amount of money that gets put into this by organized crime groups means that you put in a new security system, and in some instances, within days, those vehicles are being stolen by these groups and torn down, so they can find vulnerabilities. Then that information is shared. It is almost impossible to come up with a single solution that will make a car unstealable.
Let's say Transport Canada mandated that every vehicle should have bars on the window. You can't get into them. There would be no way possible, without some sort of heavy machinery. Well, what we saw happening here is that as the systems improved, organized crime groups turned to carjackings and violent home invasions. They will do whatever it takes to get the keys, and that's obviously a very dangerous outcome for Canadians.
There is no silver bullet on the technology side. It's a suite of measures, including closing off export markets, more law enforcement and higher penalties for criminals. There is no single technological solution that will stop the theft.