Katarina Szulc
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and they are producing fentanyl there.
And it started off as distributing this product throughout Canada, because just like the United States, there has been this insatiable appetite for fentanyl in Canada.
During the pandemic, more people at one point were dying of fentanyl overdose deaths than from COVID.
So that was a major health crisis.
And then there's this major crackdown at the southern border.
You already have cartel operatives established in the north.
You have over 5,000 miles of practically unprotected border.
You know, it's Greenland and you can fly across, you can drive your boat across, you can drive your dirt bike across.
And that just left it as open field for these members of organized crime to start to bring their operations to the next level by trafficking everything into the United States.
And it's important to keep in mind that Canadian law enforcement knows this is happening, very aware, has been aware since around 2017.
It's been happening, yeah, since Trump's first, so 2016.
Wow.
This has been, I would say for the past 10 years exactly is when cartel operatives from Mexico started to move operations into Canada.
And law enforcement knows this is happening, but Canadian law enforcement does not have the resources to crack down on this.
No, I don't know how to make fentanyl.
But it's fairly simple.
Yeah, a lot of these are just small, like single occupancy homes.
Yes, exactly.
Yeah, or they're renting it from...
So a lot of the farmland is owned by certain families and they will rent out these plots of land or whatever little house is already on this land.