In recent interviews with Joe Rogan and Fox News, FBI Director Kash Patel alleged that Vancouver has become a global hub for fentanyl production and export—part of a transnational network linking Chinese Communist Party-associated suppliers and Mexican drug cartels, and exploiting systemic weaknesses in Canada’s border enforcement. “What they’re doing now … is they’re shipping that stuff not straight [into the United States],” Patel told Rogan, citing classified intelligence. “They’re having the Mexican cartels now make this fentanyl down in Mexico still, but instead of going right up the southern border and into America, they’re flying it into Vancouver. They’re taking the precursors up to Canada, manufacturing it up there, and doing their global distribution routes from up there because we’ve been so effective down south.”
His comments prompted a public response from B.C. Premier David Eby’s top cop, Solicitor General Garry Begg, who disputed the scale of the allegations.[…]
But a diplomatic letter obtained exclusively by The Bureau supports the view that high-level U.S. concerns—nearly identical to Patel’s—were privately raised by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken two years earlier.
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According to The Bureau’s reporting, Blinken described growing frustration among U.S. federal agencies over Canada’s legal and enforcement deficiencies. He pointed to what American officials saw as systemic obstacles in Canadian law that made it difficult to act on intelligence involving fentanyl production, chemical precursor shipments, and laundering operations tied to cartel and CCP-linked actors.
West told The Bureau that the U.S. government was alarmed that a major money laundering investigation in British Columbia—targeting the notorious Sam Gor synthetic narcotics syndicate, which collaborates with Mexican cartels in Western Hemisphere fentanyl trafficking and money laundering, according to U.S. experts—had collapsed in Canadian court proceedings. The Bureau has confirmed with a Canadian police veteran that this investigation originated from U.S. government intelligence.
West, a vocal critic of Canada’s handling of transnational organized crime, said U.S. agencies had begun withholding sensitive intelligence, citing a lack of confidence in Canada’s ability—or willingness—to act on it.
Willful blindness.
A fish rots from the head down.
Wait, let me write that down: “A fish rots with the blinds down…”
I wonder how long the Americans are going to put up with Canadian fecklessness over this and what they’ll be willing to do to stop what they see as a direct threat right on their border?
You’re watching it in real time. You think #TheDonald started that 51st State riff on a whim?
You think #OrangeManBad doesn’t know the USA gets 60% of their aluminum from Canada, and the tariff is costing him money? He knows that. For sure.
There is a REASON why Canada has no effective response to the cartels and the Chicoms. I don’t pretend to know what that reason is, but I’m sure #OrangeMan does. And I’m sure he’s quietly kicking all sorts of people in the tenders to make sure they’re re-evaluating their allegiances.
A tariff on cars and steel, lumber and aluminum? We don’t make anything else. He’s sticking a gun in their face and telling them to fix it or else.
“There is a REASON why Canada has no effective response to the cartels and the Chicoms.”
Yes, that reason is cash. Many many peoples getting many many monies.
Wonder if there is a Chinese version of “plata o plomo”?
I never figured I’d end up seeing Canada turned into a narco-state, but here we are.
If Kash Patel has the receipts for this, he should publicize it in Canada, in BC, showing how the BC NDP and federal #Libranos were unwilling to act upon hard evidence, and the failure to get results in Canada’s judicial system, then outline what they’re going to do about this, and not back down when Canada promises to do the right thing, but rather to wait for the results to be shown. Canada is like that, you ask them to abide by what the country’s promised to do, then they don’t do it and respond with garbage like, “Canada punches above its weight” knowing that nobody has asked Canada to “punch above its weight”, but only to do what it promised to do.
Hoping for the BC NDP or federal #Libranos to act upon this, won’t work.
At every social media site, and in regular MSM sites there are scandal upon scandal showing the gov’t unwilling to act and make the right choices to ensure a safe and secure future. When the gov’t of the day is asked about this in parliament, the gov’t side doesn’t know what’s going on, they’ve watched ex PM Trudeau respond with platitudes and bullshit at every call, and he got away with it cleanly. Now they all respond in similar fashion, asking them who drank the last of the milk in the refrigerator and they point to the cat.
It’s not making sense to me. Nothing of Canada is making sense.
It makes sense if you first assume the Canadian elite has sold out to the Chicoms and India. And possibly Iran.
Everything they’re doing makes perfect sense if they work for Xi, and they’re pillaging the nation so they can stock their villa in the south of France to ride out the inevitable collapse of Canada. None of it makes any sense whatsoever if they don’t.
I suppose it is possible that they’re just that stupid, but honestly I think that’s a stretch. I find it hard to believe this could all be down to mere stupidity. They’re too consistently wrong.
In my experience watching this happen in private companies (not the same, I know, but there’s often a similar “loot the treasury on the way out” dynamic) there’s a small number of people at the top who are in on the plan, a larger number who think they’re part of the plan but will be left behind for the mobs when the exodus comes, and an even larger number of people who think ruling over the ashes will be just dandy as long as they get to do it from a nice dacha.
Carney and his masters are in the first tier. Trudeau and every one of his inner circle are in the second.
Assume that all of the parties in BC are corrupt to some level, because it’s a lot of money. You could probably look at the amount of cash churn that occurs at the casinos, including charity casinos, and see that the win rate doesn’t explain the amount of cash that passes through. For some reason, the government is unable to do that math.
(Charity Casinos are why charities appear in the prohibition on more than $10k in cash in bill C2)
Lots of fluff about Canada and fentanyl, but there’s never been much substance. 2024 there was 0.74 lbs of fentanyl seized coming from.Camada to the US. Why haven’t commercial inspections increased? There’s been zero uptick since Trumps “emergency”
‘Cause it’s not crossing the border at the border crossings?
Whenever the last PM (The Turd) attended pride parades there was a constant hissing of, “What an asshole!”
For reasons known to all.
Seems like Marx Carnage wants that same superlative thrown out at him for his utter duplicity.