Justice Minister Lametti has lost two government cars to thieves in recent years
Justice Minister David Lametti rises during question period on Thursday, February 9, 2023 in Ottawa.
A report warning of a rise in the number of automotive thefts in this country was published Thursday — just as CBC News learned that two government-owned cars provided to Justice Minister David Lametti have been stolen. Almost exactly two years later, on February 13, 2023, a different Toyota Highlander XLE assigned to Lametti was stolen. That one was recovered the same month; the odometer read 24,408 kilometres when it was found but the document does not say what the mileage was when it was stolen.In a new report, the Canadian Finance and Leasing Association says Toronto alone has seen a 300 per cent surge in vehicle thefts since 2015.
The CFLA says that while it's hard to track stolen vehicles, the potential for large profits and the "relative ease of removing vehicles from the country" indicate that unrecovered vehicles are usually shipped abroad or resold with fake identification numbers.The CFLA suggests that organized crime is a leading culprit in thefts of vehicles that are never recovered because organized crime tends to send stolen vehicles abroad.
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