shockedcanadian
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Who knows if this comes to fruition. With the decades of threat manufacturing by the Creepy Ones, they will NOT know how to handle these gangs, especially in places like Toronto and Vancouver etc.
Although there’s no evidence of any significant flows of fentanyl into the United States from Canada, an American authority on “criminal supply chains” warned Friday that that could change abruptly if U.S. efforts to better seal its border with Mexico are successful.
Jonathan Caulkins, who researches supply chains that support illegal markets for the Manhattan Institute think tank and Carnegie Mellon University. said the drug cartels that control the North American fentanyl trade may well shift large chunks of their operations to Canada if the northern border becomes the path of least resistance.
Caulkins, the co-author behind a recent Manhattan Institute study of fentanyl supply chains , said the cartels are sophisticated, mobile and will adjust quickly if their cross-border routes are choked.
“They’re not trying (now), but they sure could,” he said in an interview hours after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to increase tariffs on some Canadian exports (those products that aren’t captured by the Canada-U.S.-Mexico free trade agreement) to the U.S. to 35 per cent from 25 per cent. Those tariffs, which kicked in earlier Friday, were necessary, according to Trump, because Canada has failed to co-operate with U.S. efforts to curb “the ongoing flood of fentanyl and other illicit drugs.”
Although there’s no evidence of any significant flows of fentanyl into the United States from Canada, an American authority on “criminal supply chains” warned Friday that that could change abruptly if U.S. efforts to better seal its border with Mexico are successful.
Jonathan Caulkins, who researches supply chains that support illegal markets for the Manhattan Institute think tank and Carnegie Mellon University. said the drug cartels that control the North American fentanyl trade may well shift large chunks of their operations to Canada if the northern border becomes the path of least resistance.
Caulkins, the co-author behind a recent Manhattan Institute study of fentanyl supply chains , said the cartels are sophisticated, mobile and will adjust quickly if their cross-border routes are choked.
“They’re not trying (now), but they sure could,” he said in an interview hours after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to increase tariffs on some Canadian exports (those products that aren’t captured by the Canada-U.S.-Mexico free trade agreement) to the U.S. to 35 per cent from 25 per cent. Those tariffs, which kicked in earlier Friday, were necessary, according to Trump, because Canada has failed to co-operate with U.S. efforts to curb “the ongoing flood of fentanyl and other illicit drugs.”
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