Re:Why is Montreal a stolen car export hub?
by ckdarby on Sunday April 14, 2024 @10:07PM
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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.
Re:Why is Montreal a stolen car export hub?
by colechristensen on Sunday April 14, 2024 @10:29PM
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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?
Re:Why is Montreal a stolen car export hub?
by alejohausner on Sunday April 14, 2024 @10:24PM
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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
Re:Why is Montreal a stolen car export hub?
by aurizon on Sunday April 14, 2024 @10:46PM
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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)
Re:Why is Montreal a stolen car export hub?
by paleotrope on Sunday April 14, 2024 @10:48PM
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"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."
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.
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 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?
Canada is sadly too dependent on its ports to stand up to the criminals who run them.
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
Now that's funny.
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.