00:20:02.300the more that these chop shops cut up cars and put them back on the road,
00:20:06.640the more that it's affecting the auto industry.
00:20:09.400I think the idea of cars being stolen in Canada
00:20:12.800has been around for decades, since the automobile.
00:20:16.400since the automobile was on the roads in canada cars are being stolen however as canadians is
00:20:22.320naturally trusting law-abiding people there was a belief that if you were in a rural community
00:20:29.000suburban community you were okay that's something that happens downtown in the big city so what
00:20:33.980happened beginning especially in the pandemic peaking in 2022 the last few years has opened
00:20:39.080the eyes of a lot of canadians mike that just because you live in a suburban community in a
00:20:44.640city in canada that means nothing you're as much at risk as we're seeing from these numbers you're
00:20:49.500talking about having your car stolen as being downtown in the biggest city in the country
00:20:53.520well they'll get your car and they can drive away in it that's the other thing it's it's the kind of
00:20:57.740theft that you know uh unless you catch it while it's happening it's hard to get them caught um
00:21:03.52082 percent of thefts uh theft surveyed happened at or next to the victim's home so this is the
00:21:09.900other thing that proximity of crime to where you're sleeping oh it's scary it's a terrifying
00:21:15.900proposition for canadian and not every car thief is just going there with some tools to open it
00:21:20.860you don't know if they've got a shotgun or a glock or a knife or what they're capable of so i know a
00:21:26.600lot of police forces like don't be vigilante because it is your car worth your life yeah that's
00:21:31.120a question you have to ask could be coming into your home to get a fob or duplicate the fob i
00:21:35.260don't even know what they do but yeah who knows if your garage is attached to your home and they're
00:21:39.280going into the garage after the car which we've seen more and more happening uh i know so many
00:21:44.360people that they don't lock the door between the garage and inside the house because that's the if
00:21:49.640they do park the car then they assume it's just okay because the garage door is closed and they
00:21:54.660just leave it open all the time we have a regiment in our house every night is everything locked
00:21:59.560next person checks it because that's what it's kind of become so auto theft i think has a lot
00:22:04.900of emotional impact on absolutely the average citizen here because you feel violated violated
00:22:11.100first and foremost and you're like wait a sec unless you are in an urban area of this country
00:22:17.340on a subway line on the go train line with access to transit there are so many millions of canadians
00:22:23.280without their car they can't get to work they can't get their kids to school they can't live
00:22:27.940Exactly. I have to say, also, I think the numbers are a little outrageous. When we say, okay, 100,000 cars were stolen in 2022, what was the number? Over 100,000.
00:22:40.340Over 100,000 cars were stolen in 2022. And we're down to only 46,000 in 2025, what looks like maybe a similar number in 2026. We need to really be careful about that number.
00:22:56.120The first number, 100,000, was epidemic, grotesque, putting people in serious jeopardy of thinking about the security of themselves in this country.
00:23:09.540It put Canada on the map as this rogue nation of car theft.
00:23:14.840And in the end, we're still just around 50,000 cars stolen a year, which is outrageous.