Sniffer Dogs and Drones: Canada Flexes Drug Enforcement Muscle in Appeal to Trump

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(Bloomberg)-Canada is circulating the normal self-restraint in an attempt to prove US President Donald Trump that it is serious about strengthening the borders because it tries to avoid customs tariffs.

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The soft language is outside. Pictures and videos of the police, border agents and helicopters are present. Official communications now raise strength and power through phrases such as “Strike Force”, “Blizzard” and “Fentanyl CZAR”.

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has formed his speech on drug smuggling. He said on February 11

Trump signed an executive order on February 1 to put 25 % of the tariff against most Canadian products, saying that the northern neighbor of the United States was allowing a lot of fentanel to go to the border. These drawings are scheduled to enter into force on March 4 after the president said this week that drugs are still “at high levels and not acceptable.”

Canadian officials say this is not true – and they refer to the American government's data, which turned out that American border agents have found little of the fentian coming from the north. But there are no chances, they are also trying to put efforts to enforce them on the public screen.

Over the past week alone, drug news bulletins appeared at least five times from the various Canadian government departments.

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The Brawn-including some scenes of attention attracting attention, such as the Minister of Public Safety, alongside dogs that create drugs-are directed to a president looking to prove that he is forced to the fentanel crisis from the countries that border them.

The available evidence indicates that Canada is not an important source of the drug for the United States, so it does not have a little ability to influence a main scale set by Trump: American overdose deaths.

This makes border optics more important.

“With Trump, everything about plays. Words and numbers are not enough. He wants to see very clear signs of the procedures,” Finn Hamson, Professor of International Affairs at the University of Carlton at Ottawa. He looks at Canadian efforts as much as not enough.

“Despite the fact that we have a prime minister who was a drama teacher, there is not enough drama. We need more theater on the border – men wear the uniform with weapons.

Trump's tariff threats Canada and Mexico prompted the announcement of specific measures. Mexican President Claudia Shinbom has pledged to send 10,000 National Guard officers to the border. Trudeau has revealed a $ 1.3 billion border security plan ($ 899 million), which included new helicopters and new drones, as well as strengthening the number of employees – although not soldiers – to monitor the crossings.

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Wesley Wark, a former adviser to Canadian ministers on national security issues and a senior colleague at the International Innovation Center for International Governance, said that the complaints of Trump and his officials on the Canadian border are “complete deception.”

“There is no perfect border. There was no intention to create a Berlin Wall between Canada and the United States.” But the idea that the Canadian borders are a security problem for the United States is complete nonsense. Statistics and evidence are not achieved. “

Despite the billion dollars of a billion dollar, some view Canada as much as it lacks the raid in the media in essence. Ross McCitrick, professor of economics at Gilf University in Ontario, said the government's focus appears to be public relations rather than a serious effort to participate in observing full borders.

“Some feel like they are playing nicely. I am afraid that in the back of their minds, they think that they will not want to get something better than hitting the customs tariff, running the election campaign on this new threat and engaging in this type of Bernkar.”

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Trudeau is scheduled to leave his position this month and his liberal party faces a difficult battle to win other elections. But when the prime minister who does not have his cracks and Trump escalates from his threats against the country, opinion polls show that liberals have acquired the competitors. This year's elections will be made.

Opion epidemic

Canada and the United States face an epidemic, with a fentanel, who is responsible for the majority of drug excessive doses. Canada witnessed about 20 deaths per 100,000 people in 2022, just below the American level, although the number of excess dose deaths finally decreased before Trump returned to the White House.

During a visit to Washington on Thursday, Kevin Brucene, Kevin Bruceen, said that his mandate is to improve cooperation between law enforcement agencies inside Canada and work with their American counterparts to ensure “strong borders.”

Canadian officials also replace the drugs that come from American trapper. This week, in an advertisement about the “Blizzard Operation”, a national drug enforcement project, they said they recently seized 56 grams (0.12 pounds) of fentanel. This total included 20 fentanel and 23 grams of “suspected fentanel” from American citizens crossing the tunnel connecting Detroit to Windsor, Ontario.

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Experts have argued in substance addiction and reduce damage that border measures alone are unlikely to be the silver bullet of the crisis.

According to American customs and border data, the authorities near the northern border seized only 0.03 pounds of fentanel in January. This is the weight of one battery for a television dimension control device and is diminishing compared to 991 pounds – or heavy like the large piano – was seized near the borders of Mexico.

Moreover, the Border Agency methodology means that seizures near the northern border are attributed to the Canadian crossing even if there is no evidence that the drugs have already come from the country, according to the investigation conducted by the world and the post.

Trudeau told reporters in Montreal on Thursday that his government is working “day and night” to ensure that there is no tariff imposed on Canada and repeated that his government is committed to investments on the border.

Trudeau said: “The definitions that the president talks about next week are focused on the Ventanil crisis they face in the United States, but we also face in Canada,” Trudeau said. “This is an issue that we should work together.”

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