Public Safety committee  Let me be perfectly clear. Car dealers don't want our vehicles to be stolen. We don't want our customers to be victims of it. I think the answer deserves a fair commentary. When customers come into dealerships and say they're turning in their keys because they're worried about

Public Safety committee  I want to be clear. We do put pressure on the manufacturers to try to make the cars...and we work co-operatively with them to try to up that game against organized crime. Respectfully, we just don't do it by writing letters to them.

Public Safety committee  Yes. I would be happy to provide the data to the committee. I would say that, historically, the rates in auto theft, correcting for population, have been higher in Canada than in the United States. It's one of the few areas over 30 years....

Public Safety committee  No, I would not say that Équité is wrong. What I would say is that we have definitely seen, in the last two years, spikes in auto theft in the U.S. as well.

Public Safety committee  Do you want me to answer that question, sir?

Public Safety committee  I'd be happy to do so. I was appointed by a Liberal member, the Liberal minister, to sit on the national business crime prevention council under Minister Rock. I dealt with the social determinants of how to help Canadians commit fewer crimes. We're not here purporting that we ju

Public Safety committee  I appreciate the commentary. When you're a single dealership operator and that is your family business, you're truly the victim of this. To the member from Vaudreuil's commentary, I'm not diminishing that our customers are the largest victims of this, but we are in a constant ca

Public Safety committee  Yes. The costs are enormous, of course, with respect to that, but there's also the cost in increasing pressure from insurers, because if you're constantly a victim, just as the average member of the public is constantly a victim of this, there's pressure on the insurance costs as

Public Safety committee  I think we need a layered approach to address this. I think specific penalties for auto theft and their enforcement are important. What we should all be outraged by is that it's international organized crime taking advantage of Canadian youth, in some cases, and paying them exo

Public Safety committee  I won't be able to give you a figure on the exact number of stolen vehicles at dealerships off the top of my head, but I could look into that, for sure. The cases I'm referencing are well known and documented in the media. Sales folks run over as they get strong-armed in a robbe

Public Safety committee  We don't gather it, but I will undertake to look into it and see what we can do to provide some clarity on that front. With respect to the coordination issue, we've been somewhat mystified, because we've been promoting this issue on a cross-jurisdictional basis since roughly 202

Public Safety committee  I would comment that CBSA seems to be in some disarray with respect to dealing with exports. I think that's a combination of personnel and training, but it's also the overall approach. I think the union did a very good job of explaining that in previous testimony this week.

Public Safety committee  I would say with respect to the top-10 list that, if you look at the Toyotas that are on that top-10 list, as an example—not to pick on one particular brand—you will see that the stolen vehicle rate is 10 times higher on those Toyotas on the top-10 list in Canada. It's six times

Public Safety committee  A hundred per cent.

Public Safety committee  Mr. Adams is representing the automakers.