Canada moving to list criminal cartels as terrorist groups
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With Canada’s new fentanyl czar in place, Public Safety Minister David McGuinty said the next step is to designate criminal cartels as terrorist entities.
With Canada’s new fentanyl czar now in place, Public Safety Minister David McGuinty said the next step in the fight against the opioid crisis is to designate criminal cartels as terrorist entities under the country’s Criminal Code.
Speaking Wednesday at Toronto Pearson International Airport, McGuinty said that listing cartels as terrorist groups will give law enforcement, such as RCMP and local police, more authority and more powers to “follow the money and to look and see how criminal cartels are using sophisticated laundering tactics.”
“Right now in downtown Toronto, there’s a gathering of the leadership of the Public Safety Department with Finance Canada, with our fentanyl czar, and with our senior RCMP folks. They’re meeting with the six largest chartered banks in Canada,” he said during the media conference.
“They are inaugurating a new money laundering intelligence partnership and we’re going to be supporting the sharing of money laundering and organized crime intelligence between our six banks and law enforcement to deal with the fentanyl crisis in the trade thereof.”
He added that one of the most effective ways to tackle the fentanyl trade is to follow the money, cutting off the proceeds that fund organized crime — ultimately helping to dismantle the cartels profiting from dangerous and illegal drugs.
The announcement comes more than a week after Canada appointed a new fentanyl czar, part of the measures aimed at addressing concerns about border security made by United States President Donald Trump in tariff threats.
It is part of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s new intelligence directive on organized crime and fentanyl that will be backed by $200 million in spending.
Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on all imports from Canada and cited concerns about the flow of fentanyl and migrants across the border.
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