Toronto’s police chief last week, standing behind a transparent plastic bag and a pile of drugs piled up in a storage box, announcing the largest cocaine seizure of trucks in trucks entering the United States.
A few hours later, President Trump also spoke about drug trafficking across borders, but in his case, at least he was responsible for Canada for the deadly Fentanyl tragedy.
“The Fentanyl through Canada is a large -scale,” Trump told the reporters the day after taking office. “Fentanyl passes through Mexico is huge, and people are killed and their families are destroyed.”
Canada and Mexico repeatedly claimed that the border was reinforced, drug flow and immigrants did not do enough to hinder the flow to the United States. he February 1 threatened to impose 25 % punishment for exports from the two countries.
Howard Rutonic, a commercial secretary, repeatedly rely on the United States to “Respect the United States.”
“If we are your biggest trade partner, please respect us,” Lutonic said. “Close border, Fentanyl comes to this country.”
In order to stop intimidating tariffs, the Canadian government sends drones, dog units, and helicopters to support monitoring on borders. However, the recent announcement by the enforcement officer on these efforts and guarantees by Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau seems to have done little to soothe the new US administration.
However, given that Canada has a limited role in Fentanyl trade across borders, it is not clear that it can be done to relieve the US opioid crisis.
Where did Fentanyl in Canada come from?
Prior to 2020, the Canadian trafficking network was mainly imported Fentanyl and other opioids. However, in recent years, they have increased domestic production and tend to be expected to follow other countries. Report It was issued this month by a Canadian financial information agency.
Canadian officials believe that about 100 organizational crime groups have been involved in the country’s Fentanyl production last year and have increased more than four times since 2022.
Police are mainly located in British Colombia, Alberta, and Ontario, a secret Fentanil Research Institute nationwide. In November, British Columbia officers said that the largest Labs in Canada were closed, hidden in the property of rural areas, and seized enough chemicals to produce 96 million Fentanyl. I did it. The survey showed a link to the Mexican cartel.
Before the transition to domestic drug production, Canadian police and border agents were fighting the flow of Fentanyl powder pushed into tablets. It is currently focused on importing chemical substances used for synthesis of Fentanyl, known as a precursor.
How much is Fentanyl in Canada crossing the United States?
Congress established a committee in 2020 to investigate how to reduce the flow of drugs in Japan in 2020, as the trend of opioids intensified in the United States and thousands of people. According to February 2022, the committee found that it is not known that Canada is a conclusion that is mainly drawn out of seizure data, mainly fentanyl, other synthetic opioids, or pioneers to the United States, and maintaining seizure data. I did. Report。
Last year, the US customs border security agent in the United States has been intercepted about 19 kilograms on the northern border, compared to the border with Mexico, where the quartel mass -produces drugs.
It is financially not meaningful that the Canadian criminal group focuses on the export of Fentanyl South, with the intelligence of the Canadian Border Service Agency and the Investigation Director Daniel Anson. “Mexico’s Fentanyl is very difficult to compete in the United States for cost and street prices,” he said.
Canadian public security agencies said that local criminal groups that produce opioids tend to provide services to domestic markets, but are also expanding to other markets such as Australia, New Zealand and Japan. The Australian police in 2022 intercepted Large -scale Fentanyl shipment About 5 million times from Canada.
What is Canada doing about it?
Canada has some of the world’s most strictest chemical import regulations under its regulatory drugs and material law, but health authorities and police evolve the organized criminals to produce Fentanyl. I have a hard time catching up with the chemical ingredients.
Approximately 80 % of the chemicals used to make Fentanyl can be legally imported or in Canada, according to a report released by Canada’s criminal information service this month. Some criminal groups have stated that they have established private companies to protect their intentions.
In a recent case in Alberta, a man who operated what was thought to be the largest illegal Fentanil Research Institute was sentenced to 16 years. The investigator discovered a business by tracking the shipment of precursor chemicals legally imported from Chinese manufacturers to Canada.
The amount of Fentanyl left Canada toward the United States, but 0.2 %, despite being seized at the southern US border, established a new team in focusing on drug exports. I said. Import of synthetic chemicals. In order to target trade -based money laundering and fraud, we will establish a border financial crime center next year.
“I am 100 % oriented to prevent us from being weak,” said Anson.