Katarina Szulc

I think, I don't know exactly how many labs are operating in Canada, but the majority of the labs that are in Canada, which is significant because there is certainly a supply.

There is no lack of drugs in Canada or the United States, right?

And especially in Northern States too, where a lot of these drugs are coming into.

I think the majority of them are being run by the cartels.

And the interesting thing is you won't really see it in the numbers or in police investigations or press releases because they don't keep track of which criminal organizations are operating what cartels.

Like, which labs?

So, for example, you will, someone will be arrested, three men will be arrested for trafficking arms and drugs.

They were arrested in a Surrey home in British Columbia.

And we found X amount of drugs, X amount of arms with this amount of street value.

They won't say, oh, you know, they were operating on behalf of the Sinaloa cartel.

They will say, we found messages in our investigation that they were operating with Mexican associates.

And some people will then subsequently be charged and they'll be Mexican nationals living in Canada.

Those guys are working for the cartels.

But Canadian authority doesn't keep track, or at least not publicly, of who is working with exactly which criminal organization.

And I think that that also does play a role in allowing the cartels to flourish over there because they can operate so entirely under the radar.

I mean, here in the U.S.,

For the first time a few weeks ago, a woman in El Paso was arrested for particularly working as a straw buyer for CJNG.

And this was the first case of someone in the U.S.

with material to be charged as an FTO.

In Canada, that wouldn't be the case.