"Canada's last-minute decision to cooperate with President Trump on border security and efforts to curb fentanyl trafficking was a key factor behind the president's 25% tariff threat. While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has pledged to strengthen border security, a former US official who led an anti-fentanyl task force under President
"Well, several months ago, you had the biggest lab in the history of the world taken over by (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) in Vancouver... It made Breaking Bad look like minor league," former State Department official David Asher told Canada's state-funded CBC News' chief political correspondent, Rosemary Barton, in an interview last weekend.
Asher claimed that the fentanyl super lab was "definitely" connected to Chinese organized crime and also pointed to possible connections with Iran and even rogue biker gangs.
He explained that Canada has "very little border enforcement ... most of the drugs are going from Mexico to Canada and then being brought south into the northwest United States on ships. You have almost no port enforcement with police. So we have no idea - except for our sources - what is actually going on. And we hear some bad things."
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