On Canada Day 2021, having had their fill of festivities (such as they were) in downtown Toronto, the Zameer family — father Umar and eight-months-pregnant wife Aaida, recent immigrants from Malaysia, plus their two-year-old son — loaded up the family BMW in the parking garage beneath City Hall and planned to make for home in Woodbridge. Two men rushed the car, banging on the windows and demanding they halt. A minivan drove in and blocked their path forward. Zameer, reasonably certain that he and his wife and son were under attack — carjackings are all the rage in the GTA nowadays — fled in reverse.