Mexican drug cartels have now fully infiltrated Canada. You heard that right. They're here. And no, they're not planning on leaving anytime soon. But don't expect to hear about this on the CBC or any other government paid news organization.
00:00:00.000What I want to say to every world leader who gets up in arms when all we're asking for is fairness and to have them stop killing our people is please listen to us. Canada could do a lot more. Canada has been taken over, Brett, by Mexican cartels. They bring up these pill presses and printers and the medicines that they fake. You can't tell the difference.
00:00:27.220It's major companies. You need a spectographer to do. Mexican drug cartels have now fully infiltrated Canada. You heard that right. They're here. And no, they're not planning on leaving anytime soon. But don't expect to hear about this on the CBC or any other government paid news organization.
00:00:47.380You see, back in late 2026, then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau decided that it would be a good idea to remove the visa requirement for Mexican citizens. He didn't put it to a vote. He didn't consult the Canadian people.
00:01:03.440He just did it, despite reports from our law enforcement agencies telling him that this would almost certainly create an opportunity for the cartel to find its way into Canada.
00:01:16.020But of course, he didn't listen. And since then, the RCMP has reported that multiple drug cartels are now operating in this country.
00:01:24.940Okay, here's a video from the Parliamentary Committee on Public Safety, where they talk about how the Mexican cartels have now infiltrated Canada and are operating in this country. Let's have a listen.
00:01:38.660Thank you. Minister, you're saying this is a world problem, but why has this grown in Canada in recent years? Why do you think?
00:01:44.460Look, the issues around transnational criminal organizations are something that we're deeply worried about. We've taken some concrete action, and Canada, like other countries, is facing an increase.
00:01:59.180You don't have any specific. Minister, your government lifted visa requirements for Mexico in December of 2016. Are you familiar with that decision?
00:02:07.420I was not in Cabinet at that time, but I am familiar with that decision, yes.
00:02:11.020I love how he has to throw in there that he wasn't a part of Cabinet when the decision was made.
00:02:15.420He's like, well, I wasn't a part of government when the decision was made. I was just a member of Parliament. That's all I was.
00:02:21.580It's like, it's your party. It's your government. It was you people who decided, despite the fact that the CBSA and other law enforcement agencies told you guys that it would be a bad idea to remove the visa requirement for Mexicans, that you were going to do it anyways.
00:02:38.640So you're going to wear this one, buddy.
00:02:40.440Do you agree that this decision expanded the cartel presence in Canada?
00:02:45.220I don't have a direct causal link to that, but you're aware that last year that restriction was closed.
00:02:52.660I'm aware, but do you think that there was a connection between lifting the visa requirements and the expanded presence of the cartel and the strengthening of their smuggling networks in Canada?
00:03:02.040I'm not at liberty to speculate on that, Mr. Laird.
00:03:05.240Well, this guy then says, well, but we put the visa requirement back again in 2024.
00:03:24.840They freaking remove the visa requirement for eight years from 2016 to 2024 without consulting Canadians, without putting it to a vote, going against the advice of our law enforcement agencies who told them literally a month before they made this decision.
00:05:43.280That's probably part of the reason why we're in this mess, is because you didn't read the report that came out a month before you guys got us in this mess.
00:05:52.840Law enforcement agencies told the Trudeau government a month before he made that decision to remove the visa for Mexican citizens that doing so would put us at risk of having the cartel move here into Canada.
00:06:15.620Minister, if you can't see the causal length between lifting these visa requirements and the increase in cartel activity in Canada, why then did your government reimpose the visa requirements?
00:06:37.500Were you advised that the lifting of these visas had caused an increase in crime and the implementation of these visas were necessary to staunch the stem of organized crime growth in Canada?
00:06:48.800Mr. Lloyd, I wasn't the minister at that point, and I did not have that particular information.
00:06:54.780Well, you're talking about borders today.
00:07:01.500You've listed seven South American and Central American cartels as terrorist organizations, and you don't know and you can't say whether your government's policies are intended to stop those terrorist organizations from operating in Canada.
00:07:13.220You can't say whether or not lifting the visa requirements did cause it, minister.
00:07:16.540This is the report from W5 that was being referenced in the conversation with the public safety minister.
00:07:24.320RCMP names seven syndicates active in Canada, published on October 16, 2025, so just about a month ago.
00:07:32.800High-ranking RCMP officer is painting a disturbing picture of the cartel footprint in Canada.
00:07:39.840In a rare interview, RCMP chief superintendent and director general of the National Serious and Organized Crime Program, Matthew Bertrand, revealed to W5's Avery Haynes that at least seven cartels are active in Canada.
00:07:57.180That's what's happening in Canada today.
00:08:30.380The drug trafficking activities are a risk to our national security and must be stopped using all tools available.
00:08:38.500So this is what's going on in Canada, and all you have from the people responsible for causing this mess is excuses, word salad, and deflect, deflect, deflect.
00:08:50.220The cartel are now present in Canada, and they're operating here.
00:08:55.880Something that was not a reality just a short 10 years ago.