OTTAWA, Ontario — Canada on Tuesday named a former deputy commissioner with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police because the nation’s fentanyl czar, hoping to point out the U.S. it’s working to stop manufacturing and distribution of the artificial opioid.
Throughout his greater than 20 years within the RCMP, Kevin Brosseau served as a deputy commissioner and the senior Mountie within the province of Manitoba. Extra just lately, he was deputy nationwide safety and intelligence adviser to the prime minister.
“Fentanyl is a deadly drug that have to be eradicated from our communities,” Prime Minster Justin Trudeau mentioned in a press release Tuesday. “The appointment of Kevin Brosseau as Fentanyl Czar will speed up Canada’s efforts to detect, disrupt, and dismantle the fentanyl commerce, in partnership with the US.”
President Donald Trump just lately threatened to impose steep tariffs on all items from Canada, citing the southbound circulate of migrants and medicine, together with fentanyl.
Trump agreed to a monthlong pause on the tariffs whereas the U.S. assesses whether or not Canada’s current actions fulfill his calls for.
The quantity of fentanyl made in Canada and smuggled into the U.S. is way smaller than that from Mexico. U.S. customs brokers seized 43 kilos (19.5 kilograms) of fentanyl on the Canadian border over the past fiscal 12 months, in contrast with 21,100 kilos (9,570 kilograms) on the Mexican border.