It’s becoming extremely burdensome to own a vehicle in Canada, with around 90,000 cars stolen each year, the federal government estimates. That’s one car every six minutes, Public Safety Canada said in a statement in February.

These thefts are spurring higher insurance rates — $1.2 billion in theft claims were paid out in 2022, the Insurance Bureau of Canada said — and “in the worst cases, leaving [Canadians] out of pocket for tens of thousands of dollars,” according to the National Action Plan on Combatting Auto Theft that was released this month.