To get out of Donald Trump's tariff threat, Ottawa is downplaying its role in the fentanyl trade, while promising more monitoring at the border. But U.S. officials who've worked on this issue, including one for Trump, say it needs structural reforms to tackle international criminal networks.
To get out of Donald Trump's tariff threat, Ottawa is downplaying its role in the fentanyl trade, while promising more monitoring at the border. But U.S. officials who've worked on this issue, including one for Trump, say it needs structural reforms to tackle international criminal networks.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised U.S. president-elect Donald Trump at a dinner that Canada would step up enforcement at the border.
But furthermore, Canada is a more important player in the fentanyl trade than it acknowledges, he said — and its role is growing. Asher makes clear that he can't answer for Trump and doesn't speak for him. He said he did know some sort of border statement was coming from the president-elect, as he's close to numerous members of the incoming administration.
Criminal gangs' use of Canadian-based encrypted communications was thrust into the spotlight, when the CEO of an encrypted-phone company in Washington Statestate secrets. Asher refers bitterly to this case; he notes that his colleagues — and all Five Eyes countries — had regularly shared intelligence with Ortis.
Some senior executives at the bank were aware of the scheme, and the current U.S. attorney general, Merrick Garland, has said that, atop the two employees already charged, more prosecutions could follow.U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren says TD executives were let off easy in money laundering settlement But there's an asterisk: "Canada does have, however, serious problems with organized crime," Vanda Felbab-Brown told CBC News. She hosted anAn aerial view of the site in Falkland, B.C., which police say was home to the largest and most sophisticated illicit drug production operation ever seen in Canada. Even there, Asher said, Canadians may be downplaying the country's growing role in the actual production and export of fentanyl.
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