Canadian investigators were effectively cracking down on fentanyl trafficking and production well before Donald Trump threatened devastating tariffs if Canada didn't do more.
Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.Canada has a month to figure out how to avoid U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs after his last-minute decision to delay 25 per cent levies on Canadian goods. David Akin reports on Canada's scramble to secure its border to Trump's satisfaction, the duties of the new fentanyl czar, and how much of these efforts is optics.
“The labs that have been dismantled within our provincial footprint could supply the province and our neighbour provinces but we are chasing all leads and intelligence.Click to share quote on Twitter: "There's nothing to suggest that those products have gone south of the border."The interior of a drug lab in Falkland, B.C., is shown in this handout image provided by the RCMP.
They said a large portion of the ingredients Canadian investigators have found were produced in China and known to be used by pharmaceutical companies and medical industries to make legal painkillers.Story continues below advertisement
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