Nearly 600 stolen cars from GTA seized from Montreal port

Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.On a Nigerian classified ads website, some of the used vehicles for sale still have Ontario licence plates, dozens more are advertised as coming from Canada. There's a good chance these cars were stolen and if they were, they were likely exported through the Port Of Montreal.

Aside from its location, the sheer volume of merchandise moving through the port is exploited by criminals. Last year, around 1.7 million containers transited through the Port of Montreal, including 70 per cent of Canada’s legal vehicle exports, according to port authorities. That’s around a million more containers than Canada’s next two largest East Coast ports combined.

Patrick Brown, the mayor of the Peel Region city of Brampton, said a lack of container screening at the Montreal port has made exporting stolen vehicles a lucrative, low-risk endeavour.He said car theft is a more serious problem in Canada than in the United States because American authorities use scanning equipment on a much larger percentage of shipping containers.

During Project Vector, Peel Police said their access to containers at the port was restricted by CBSA’s “very limited resources,” Cst. Tyler Bell-Morena wrote in an email. That’s because once a container filled with stolen cars reaches the Port of Montreal, there aren’t enough border guards to check it, according to the union representing border officers. In fact, last February, there were just eight border officers working at the port, and the agency lacked space to hold more than six recovered stolen vehicles at a time, union president Mark Weber recently told a parliamentary committee.

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