It is a growing issue. To give a bit of context, there are three things that happen, typically. They get exported to international markets; they get fraudulently reVINed and then sold to unsuspecting customers; or they get taken apart and sold in chop shops. ReVINing is a growing concern across Canada. Oftentimes a consumer, unaware, will purchase a vehicle they think has a clean bill of sale. It does not, and then there are often consequences for that consumer.
One thing we found encouraging is that provincial governments, including the Ontario government, and the CCMTA have started to clean up their VIN systems. They've started to share data more. That's an encouraging development, because the more we can share data, the more we can root out the kinds of fraudulent data we've seen in this system in the past.
