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Why is Montreal a stolen car export hub?

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38 pointsandy9912 comments

Shift the liability or the agreements.

If you want to ship out of the Montreal port you agree that the port authority has the right to open the container.

If the container is found to have stolen goods the fine is 5x the value of the stolen goods. If it is a bogus entity that showed up with the container the liability goes to the logistic company or the ship itself. Trust me, things will get real efficient in making sure all goods are legal and checked beforehand.

If you want to ship out of the Montreal port you agree that the port authority has the right to open the container.

How does that help you when the workers at the port authority are actively involved?

It's an open secret that organized crime runs Canada's ports.

Port authorities are government entities that manage the ports they are not the people actually working on the docks.

Port authorities are run by government appointed officials.

I’d have no trouble believing organized crime infiltrated the people operating the ports, but do you have evidence pointing to significant problems with the authorities?

If the government appointed executives "managing" the port try to interfere with organized crime, the union goes on strike and the port shuts down.

Canada is sadly too dependent on its ports to stand up to the criminals who run them.

"People will have tracking devices in their cars, they’ll track them to the intermodal hub, or track them to the port and local police can’t even go on and do anything about it,” he said."

Now that's funny.

So if the tracker says a stolen car is in a container why isn’t that enough to get a warrant? GPS is accurate to 3m.

The Quebec gov allows this as the car burden falls in insurance companies. The drugs are found regularly on a statistical basis that the cartels accept as a cost of the trade, whether from South America or China(Fentanyl and meth ingredients - which are common chemical intermediates 'cooked' in all manner of scattered labs)

>Once a container filled with stolen cars reaches the Port of Montreal, there aren't enough border guards to check it,

I expect every city's port union says the same thing.

So why is Montreal so much worse? Well it has much to do with Quebec/Montreal being so corrupt.

https://macleans.ca/news/canada/the-most-corrupt-province

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charbonneau_Commission

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNC-Lavalin_affair

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Applebaum#Corruption_a...

https://www.mtlblog.com/montreal-is-still-super-corrupt-af

These are just before covid.

How about during covid? The quebec government enslaved their healthcare workers. Their union filed with the united nations.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/nurses-union-submits...

Montreal/Quebec is simply that corrupt.

https://archive.ph/J6qZ1

Yet another sign of how a great city has declined over the years! When I lived in Montreal in the 80s, it was the car theft capital of the country. Now that title belongs to Toronto.

In case you hadn’t heard, car theft is so bad in Toronto that the chief of police told car owners to leave the keys by the front door to keep violent thieves from accosting the owners at gun point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39721726

If it were me, I'd be demanding the owner of said gun to present a license for its legal possession before handing over my car keys.

Yeah but how good's the food? So vibrant.

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