🇨🇦 B.C. admits 365 known offenders are terrorizing the Lower Mainland

After years of catch-and-release sermons, David Eby’s government now wants applause for spending $16 million to monitor people the system already knows are chronic thieves and public-disorder cases. B.C. logged nearly 42,000 shoplifting incidents last year, 1.5 times the national per-capita average, and this was the fifth straight annual increase, as reported. Translation: the state let urban disorder metastasize, then rebranded basic law enforcement as a hub-based intervention initiative.

Four hubs in Vancouver, two in Surrey, 365 offenders under watch, and businesses still running on walkie-talkies because calling police is pointless. That is the legacy of Trudeau-era soft-on-crime ideology filtered through B.C. managerial liberalism: endless coordinators, specialists and liaisons, but ordinary Canadians get locked doors, stolen inventory and collapsing public trust. When government treats criminals as clients and taxpayers as livestock, this is the result. A sovereign country protects shopkeepers before it funds another bureaucracy to study the obvious.

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