pPolitical leaders including Ontario Premier Doug Ford have called for more cargo scanners at ports to catch cars being shipped out of Canada./p
Scanning more shipping containers for stolen cars may do little to curb auto theft, the head of the Halifax Port Authority said this week at a House of Commons committee.
"Let's beef that up," he said during a news conference in Ottawa on April 29."Put more scanners at the port of Montreal and really crack down on these criminals.""Spending a lot of money on scanners may not fix the problem," Gray said. It found between 2021 and 2023, the number of stolen vehicles climbed 48 per cent in Ontario, 58 per cent in Quebec and 34 per cent in Atlantic Canada.
In January, 251 stolen Canadian cars were seized at an Italian port by RCMP officers collaborating with Italian authorities.Gray told the committee that very few shipping containers are ever scanned on export, but it wouldn't be worth their time to do it anyway."We have issues in data sharing amongst ports, terminal operators, and supply chains," he said.
He said each port has its own systems with their own style of identification badges. Gray said the unified security systems in other countries make it more difficult for organized crime to enter the chain.
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