A Brockville roundtable on the proliferation of vehicle thefts in Ontario this week became part of a continued push for bail reform at the federal level.

Zee Hamid, Ontario’s associate solicitor general for auto theft and bail reform, joined locals at the roundtable Wednesday morning at the constituency office of Leeds-Grenville-Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes MPP Steve Clark.

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Media were not invited to the event, one in a series of such discussions the associate solicitor general has been holding across the province. Hamid told The Recorder and Times later Wednesday his “laser-focused” cabinet position was created a year ago to address an epidemic of auto theft, particularly in communities along 400-series highways.

Vehicle theft is largely the work of organized cr

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