Toronto Police Recommend Letting Thieves Steal Your Car

I suppose this is a measurement of the deterioration of Canadian society over time.

When my wife and I were first married, we honeymooned in Niagara falls and then in Toronto. We had actually been in Toronto several times before we got married, and I will more than grant I was a bit over the moon being newlywed, but those days we spent in Toronto we’re particularly memorable.

We stayed at a boutique hotel within shooting distance of the CN Tower, we visited a donut shop around the corner from the place where the coffee was just absolutely fabulous the donuts weren’t bad either. Even at 3:00 a.m., there were no safety problems to speak of. We went strolling and shopping and sightseeing whatever we felt like it.

Come ahead 10 years by which time we had two boys who we had decided to bring to the Toronto zoo which personally I hadn’t seen in years.

We went to the zoo had a good time and while we were out we decided that we were going to show the kids where we had stayed on our honeymoon. Bad move.

The hotel was now a chain hotel and was certainly looking worse for the wear. The donut shop had obviously had a fire and was closed, broken windows and all. But the first indication that there was something amiss was coming out of the Bloor Street subway station, and tripping over a half a dozen kids in sleeping bags on the sidewalk.

I remarked to my wife at the time, “well I guess you can’t go back home anymore”.

We went home feeling a bit disappointed. We haven’t been back since.

I’ve been watching prime Ministers questions in the House of Commons and one of the subjects that’s come up there lately is the number of cars that are being stolen because just as down here in America certain elements of Canadian government have decided to not prosecute crime.

This morning comes a story that the Toronto police are recommending that you let thieves steal your car.



At the moment I consider it a 50/50 proposition as to whether or not there will be a change of government as a result of this deterioration. If there’s anything remarkable about this, it’s that our own deterioration down here in the states is so very similar.

That similarity I believe to be a warning, that there are external forces at work here.