Standing behind the crowd pile of drugs stacked in clear plastic bags and storage boxes, Toronto police chief announced last week announced the largest seized cocaine, intercepted on the border in a truck that entered the United States.
A few hours later, President Trump also addressed a cross-border drug-but-but-to-a-case-guilty trade in Canada, at least in part, for a deadly fentanil whip.
“Fentanil coming through Canada is massive,” Mr. Trump told reporters the day after his inauguration. “Fentanil coming through Mexico is massive. And people kill themselves and families are being destroyed.”
It is a repetition of his claim that Canada and Mexico have not done enough to reinforce their borders and block the flow of narcotics – and migrants – to the United States. He threatened to impose penalties of 25 percent on exports from both countries on February 1.
Howard Lutnick, a candidate for a trade secretary, reiterated that attitude on a hearing on Wednesday, urging Canada to “respect America.”
“If we are your biggest shopping partner, show us respect,” Mr. Lutnick said. “Close your border and finish Fentanil to this country.”
In order to remove endangered tariffs, the Canadian government sends Drones, dog units and helicopters support the border control. But it seems that the recent announcements of the Law on these efforts and guarantees of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from Canada have done little to come up with a new US administration.
Considering the limited role that Canada plays in the cross -border trade Fentanil, however, it is not clear how much it could actually do to make it easier for the American opioid crisis.
Where does Fentanil come from in Canada?
Prior to 2020, the people of trade in Canada were primarily led to imported fentanil and other opioids. But in recent years they have increased domestic production, which is expected to follow other countries, according to a report She has published this month by the Canadian Financial Intelligence Agency.
Canadian officials believe that last year there were about 100 organized criminal groups in the country in the country, which is more than a four -time increase compared to 2022.
Police have placed the secrets of the laboratories of Fentanil across the country, primarily in British Columbia, Alberti and Ontario. In November, officers in British Colombia said they had closed Canada Biggest laboratory Still, hidden on a rural estate, seized sufficient chemicals for the production of 96 million doses of fentanil. The investigation showed connections to Mexican cartels.
Prior to the movement of domestic drug production, Canadian police and border agents clashed with the flow of fentanil powder-they would be imprinted in tablets-which was shipped to almost uncomfortable quantities in the post office. Now the focus on imports of chemicals used to synthesize the fantanil, known as precursors.
How many Canadian fentanil goes to the US?
As the epidemic of Opioid raged in the United States, killing thousands, the Congress founded the Commission in 2020 to consider ways to reduce the flow of drugs into the country. The Commission found that “Canada is unknown that the main source of fental, other synthetic opioids or chemicals of the Precursor in the United States, which is primarily extracted from the attack information,” said February 2022. report.
Last year, the US Customs and Border Agency for the Protection Agent about 19 kilograms of fentanil on the northern border, compared to almost 9,600 pounds on the border with Mexico, where cartels mass produce a drug.
Financially, there is no point in the Canadian criminal group focusing on the export of Fentanil South, said Daniel Anson, director of intelligence and investigations at the Canadian Border Services Agency. “Mexican fentanil, because of the price and price of the street, is very difficult to compete in the US,” he said.
The Canadian Public Security Agency said that although the local criminal groups that produce opioids are more difficult in the domestic market service, they have also expanded to other markets, including Australia, New Zealand and Japan. Australian police 2022. Intercepted a a large shipment of fentanil from Canada, about five million doses.
What does Canada do with that?
Canada has some of the strictest chemical import regulations in the world according to the law on controlled drugs and substances, but health officials and police are often struggling with evolving chemical components used by organized criminals to produce fentanila.
About 80 percent of the chemicals used to make fentania can legally be introduced from China or purchased in Canada, according to a report published this month by the Canadian Criminal Intelligence Service. Some criminal groups are set by private companies to protect the intention of their purchase, the report states.
In a recent case from Alberta, the man who managed to believe that the largest illegal laboratory of the fental of the province was sentenced to 16 years in prison. Investigators have discovered the work by monitoring the shipments of the precourse chemicals legally imported to Canada by Chinese manufacturers.
While the quantities of fentali who leaves Canada for the United States – 0.2 percent of what was seized at the South Border of the United States – Mr. Anson said the Canadian border agency established new teams to focus on the export of the drug, as well as imports of synthetic chemical. It will also establish a border center for financial crime in the next year to target trade money and fraud.
“I am 100 percent oriented to ensure that we do not become a weak relationship,” Mr. Anson said.
