News Canadian-made fentanyl is an international problem, federal police say

[S.J.B.]

Canadian-made fentanyl is an international problem, RCMP says
Christian Paas-Lang
CBC
November 18, 2023

The head of the RCMP unit responsible for fighting organized crime says Canada is not just a significant producer of fentanyl — we also export it.

Organized crime groups in Canada are using precursor chemicals to produce the deadly drug for both the domestic market and for sales abroad, Mathieu Bertrand said in an interview with CBC's The House airing Saturday.

"Sadly, Canada is a producing country of fentanyl and synthetic opioids. Not only are we a producing country, we're an exporting country," Bertrand told host Catherine Cullen.

Bertrand, chief superintendent of Serious and Organized Crime & Border Integrity at RCMP Federal Policing, said that while Canada has a problem with fentanyl imports, domestic production is what alarms police most at the moment. The fact that gangs in Canada are exporting fentanyl means either that there's a glut on the market here or there are more lucrative markets abroad, he added.

"Our collaborative efforts in law enforcement in Canada are to address the domestic production, because it is significant," he said.

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[S.J.B.]

Domestic production always "alarms police most", but of course it doesn't really matter where the production's happening. See, for example, the focus on suppressing small-scale domestic methamphetamine production in the United States. All it did was incentivize mass production in Mexico. Nature abhors a vacuum, as do illicit drug markets.

I suppose it's a reputational thing. Better to have the neighbours making the stuff: it's less embarrassing to have leaky borders than to have production on your own soil, especially when the drugs are being sent elsewhere, and the recipient country can now point the finger at you!

 

[Burnt Offerings]

Fentanyl eh?

Couldn’t resist

Anyway, yeah, it is a reputational thing, it’s just a bad look if you’re in law enforcement and that kinda thing is going on under your nose. Better to have that kind of thing take place in “the hood”, in the international sense (I.E. “developing countries” and/or countries that are comparably worse off in some way)

They should market their fentanyl as grade AAA, non GMO, ethically sourced and artisanal fentanyl…no one does QC on their fent like the Canadians!

 

[LucidSDreamr]

great to hear. Sorry for all the victims of fentanyl but I love seeing governments get embarrassed and destroyed at the drug war.

Will this assholes ever throw in the towel? What percentage of the general population do you think would have to be addicted to fent for them to actually give up on the drug war?