The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - August 14, 2025


Canadian police admit Trump is right about the border!

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The head of the Canadian Association of Police Chiefs has come out to say that Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Liberal government are lying about the crime situation on the Canada-U.S. border, and that they do not have the resources or the laws on the books to fight transnational crime.

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00:00:00.120 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. A very important story came out a couple days ago that has seemingly escaped most people's notice.
00:00:09.240 The head of the Canadian Association of Police Chiefs has come out to effectively say that Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Liberal government are lying about the crime situation on the Canada-US border.
00:00:22.220 Mark Carney, Justin Trudeau before him, and the entire Liberal government has been belittling U.S. President Donald Trump and the Americans over the idea that there is a drug problem on the Canada-US border.
00:00:35.340 They will cite extremely dubious figures saying that, well, only 1% of fentanyl seized coming into the United States comes over the Canadian border, whereas the vast majority of it comes over the U.S.-Mexico border.
00:00:48.620 And then in the year 2025, you will have Mark Carney say, well, only 59 grams of fentanyl have been seized coming into America from Canada, so I don't really know what Donald Trump's talking about, but we're still going to tighten up on border security anyways.
00:01:06.280 So, at the same time, we're trying to sign a trade deal, we're belittling the Americans on something they take very seriously, and we're not even right to belittle them.
00:01:16.020 Again, the head of the Police Chiefs Association has said that they do not have the resources or even the laws on the books to properly police transnational crime and especially drug crime.
00:01:29.900 This is an incredible article that we are going to read in just a little bit here, because they lay out that it's almost impossible to stop drugs from going through the mail as well.
00:01:40.600 They have no ability to actually check packages for drugs.
00:01:44.720 And again, we're supposed to believe only 59 grams of fentanyl have passed over the border.
00:01:50.300 And again, the key word they always use is seized. 0.96
00:01:52.580 Yes, we've only seized 59 grams of fentanyl on the Canadian border, mostly through ports of entry this year, but you have to be really stupid to actually get caught with drugs going over the border, considering how open the border is, how easily it is to ship things through the mail. 0.92
00:02:10.520 But anyways, I digress.
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00:02:49.600 But before I get to the article with the head of the Police Chiefs Association, I want to start with this tweet from Prime Minister Mark Carney, because this is the sort of rhetoric that we've been putting out.
00:03:03.340 I didn't want to go dig up the old videos of him saying that there's no drug crisis in Canada, despite there obviously being one, or that we don't actually have that much fentanyl that goes from Canada to the U.S.
00:03:14.100 We've all seen that stuff.
00:03:15.920 I've highlighted it a lot.
00:03:17.440 But this was going towards that trade deadline that he was apparently trying to hit at the time, but is now denying it.
00:03:24.200 Mark Carney in this tweet says,
00:03:25.500 And I will remind people that during that entire lead-up time to August 1st, he was touring around the Northwest Territories, Prince Edward Island, and going to pride parades, and also concerts, by the way.
00:03:48.980 And in the second line, though, he says,
00:03:51.800 Canada has made vital progress to stop the scourge of fentanyl in North America.
00:03:56.880 We are committed to continuing to do work with the United States to save lives and protect communities in both our countries.
00:04:03.420 And one, I'm going to say, we have not made any progress on fentanyl.
00:04:07.820 Just go into East Hastings in Vancouver.
00:04:10.360 We let it run wild in many parts of the country.
00:04:13.660 In fact, probably the only province really taking it seriously is my province of Alberta, where we are actually using involuntary care,
00:04:21.680 and we are getting rid of safe injection or safe consumption programs to get people off of drugs.
00:04:27.340 Because it turns out, giving people more drugs doesn't get them off of drugs.
00:04:32.300 But now, let's jump over to this article.
00:04:35.640 And this is an incredible article.
00:04:37.860 The fact that this has not gone viral is just a mystery.
00:04:42.600 The headline says,
00:04:44.100 Canada's police unable to address criminal landscape at border, pop officer says.
00:04:50.180 And it says here, we're probably going to read through the whole thing, because I think you need to know this information.
00:04:55.740 It says,
00:04:56.360 So immediately, yes, these people who are running super labs nearby the U.S. border are not some good-hearted drug dealers who are only going to sell their illegal project to Canada.
00:05:24.720 They absolutely do not care about international borders and will sell into the United States, too, or vice versa, from the United States into Canada.
00:05:33.460 It says,
00:05:33.760 Thomas Karik, president of the Association of Chiefs of Police, said police would have been in a better place to, quote-unquote, disrupt transnational crime if the federal government had listened to his group in 2001 when it last proposed legislative changes.
00:05:49.100 And he's absolutely right.
00:06:09.920 This is a tidbit that's not in the article, but it's true.
00:06:13.260 Canada doesn't have RICO laws.
00:06:16.760 There is a reason why, when that drug super lab was busted in 2024, I believe either it's the biggest in Canada or the biggest in North America ever busted.
00:06:26.540 When that super lab was shut down, there was one man arrested, because we don't have the sort of racketeering anti-mafia laws that they have in the United States.
00:06:36.880 When something like that shut down in the U.S., they would find everyone with a connection to it, who was a distributor, who was somebody who was an armed guard for the lab, who was actually making the product, who was doing all the stuff, and who was the main kingpin.
00:06:51.300 You roll it all together and you charge them all for all the crimes being committed, because they are committing these crimes together for a common goal.
00:06:58.960 We don't have that.
00:06:59.740 So, one man gets arrested, and by the way, that drug lab wasn't too far away from the U.S. border.
00:07:06.720 You would be crazy to think that these guys just sell into Vancouver and they do not want to get into the Seattle or Portland markets or anywhere else in the United States.
00:07:16.360 But now, let's keep reading on.
00:07:19.380 And Karik said, I hope I'm not saying his name wrong here.
00:07:22.920 This is Karik said, quote, geopolitical instability and social unrest, unquote, around the world are driving what he calls a, quote, a new wave of public safety threats, unquote, as Canadian police confront transnational organized crime, extremism, drug trafficking, and exploitation through the Internet.
00:07:40.940 Quote, whether it's human smuggling as well as illicit exploitation and importation of drugs, precursors, and firearms, organized crime groups are taking advantage of systemic blind spots, outdated statuses, and the digital platforms to victimize Canadians, he said.
00:07:58.500 While geopolitical and social unrest might be beyond the control of Canadians and their government, their level of preparedness and response is not, he said.
00:08:07.260 The current Strong Border Act legislation proposed by the federal government gives police many, but not all, necessary tools to confront globalized crime, he said.
00:08:16.480 The government said the bill would help authorities combat transnational organized crime, stop the flow of fentanyl, crack down on money laundering, and bolster police response to criminal networks.
00:08:27.740 Karik, who's the commissioner of Ontario Provincial Police, made the comments during a news conference in Victoria where the association is holding its annual conference.
00:08:37.260 He said the government's legislation aligns closely with several resolutions the group has passed during the conference this week.
00:08:43.980 Karik said that there are, quote, a number of loopholes, unquote, that must be closed to reflect the realities of 21st century crime, such as the inability of police to get a search warrant for any Canada post package under 500 grams.
00:08:57.860 That is an absolute bombshell.
00:09:00.600 You, they, they, the Canadian police cannot search a package that's under 500 grams.
00:09:07.480 Do you think that drug dealers don't know that?
00:09:10.960 So, you can send nearly 10 times the amount of drugs that were seized on the Canadian port of entry through the mail, and the Canadian government is not going to check it.
00:09:22.940 Maybe it gets checked, maybe it gets checked when it gets to the United States, but by the time it gets to the U.S., it's just being dropped off.
00:09:29.720 The Americans don't have the authority to open Canadian packages before they penetrate the border.
00:09:35.040 They have to catch them somewhere else along the way.
00:09:39.040 And so, yeah, that's a bit of a problem when we are distributing, putting packages on, like, you know, airplanes and sending them to the U.S.,
00:09:47.840 and now the U.S. has to deal with all the fentanyl that we are putting over the border.
00:09:52.260 The way, again, that Canada is being weaselly is that we're just saying there's only been 59 grams of fentanyl seized by American authorities at the ports of entry.
00:10:02.860 Well, what about the open sections of the border?
00:10:05.540 What about the fact that when packages are being sent from Canada or sent to Canada, we don't even check any of it?
00:10:12.520 That's kind of a problem.
00:10:15.060 And it says, quote, so a judge cannot even issue a search warrant for a package of that size that may contain enough fentanyl to kill a number of people.
00:10:28.000 Karek also repeated calls for bail reform.
00:10:31.060 Quote, the federal government has proposed a crime bill this fall introducing tougher bail sentencing provisions, he said.
00:10:36.620 Quote, this will be critical.
00:10:37.880 Victoria Police Chief Adele Mannock agreed on the need for tougher release conditions.
00:10:44.180 Mannock said police made 16 arrests during a two-day-long project to disrupt disorder in the city's downtown core.
00:10:49.940 Quote, but what was telling was the number of rearrests that we made, he said.
00:10:53.660 An individual arrested in one block was rearrested the next day, not far from his first arrest, all in his release on conditions, Mannock said.
00:11:01.200 And so, yeah, this is obviously a bigger problem than Mark Carney and his liberal government want to make it out to be.
00:11:10.800 They are belittling the Americans saying that, well, obviously there's no drug problem in Canada.
00:11:14.960 While we have no RICO laws to actually crack down on these big drug operations that are operating next to the border,
00:11:21.080 if you send drugs through the mail, the Canadian government is not going to suspect,
00:11:25.500 hey, this 495-gram package feels like there's pills in here, maybe we should check what it is.
00:11:32.520 We're just hoping that wherever post office it ends up in the United States, they'll deal with it then. 0.64
00:11:38.520 That's ridiculous and it's not going to happen.
00:11:40.800 Will some stuff get seized?
00:11:42.440 Well, sure, but you could always just fake the packaging in order to make it look like it's coming from another third destination.
00:11:49.340 So it's not being seized from Canada, it's being seized from some other country that was then routed through Canada.
00:11:55.960 There's a lot of things that drug dealers can do to also hide their operations,
00:11:59.700 and the Canadian government is not going to assist the Americans at all, seemingly, in actually cracking down on crime.
00:12:05.520 Like, we may in the long run here, but in the short run, we have no ability to actually respond to issues.
00:12:11.160 We basically are just eyes and ears.
00:12:13.240 We can see drug dealers doing stuff, but, you know, we're not going to do anything about it.
00:12:17.940 And if we do catch the guy, we're just going to arrest the one guy we caught.
00:12:21.180 We have no curiosity about how he, as one guy, is running this massive drug operation.
00:12:27.780 We just ask no questions, arrest no other people, and the guy's probably going to be back out on the streets later.
00:12:34.060 So, yeah, I'm not doing this out of a lack of patriotism, I love Canada, but Donald Trump is right about the border,
00:12:42.940 that the Canadian side of the border has, like, no policing, and the Americans are probably going to increase their policing on their side of the border,
00:12:50.260 and they just want us to reciprocate and do it on our side as well.
00:12:54.740 Because, obviously, if the Americans are having to catch everything, they're not going to catch everything.
00:12:59.740 It helps make it easier to catch a lot more when both sides of the border are working in tandem.
00:13:05.480 And this is good for Canadian security as well, because that means, the drug thing means that if somebody can get a package over the U.S. border with drugs in it or precursors,
00:13:15.180 we don't check it, just as we don't check stuff before it goes over into the United States when something is obviously a little bit sketchy about a big package full of pills.
00:13:24.520 And, again, we also have large, completely undefended parts of the border.
00:13:28.740 You think that a person wanting to make millions of dollars in drug money is unwilling to pull up to an undefended part of the B.C.-Washington border
00:13:39.240 or the border between Manitoba and the Dakotas in order to just walk a package, a backpack across, hand it to somebody else, and get them to give them a bunch of money?
00:13:48.620 Obviously, they will do that.
00:13:50.280 These people do not actually respect international borders, as the police chief said.
00:13:58.800 But, anyways, so that should be it for me in this video, guys.
00:14:03.220 I will be back later, but I felt like this needed to be talked about, because I keep hearing, even conservatives keep saying,
00:14:09.980 oh, only 1% of fentanyl is actually seized on the border.
00:14:13.220 I'm like, well, is it?
00:14:14.260 I guess, yes, it is seized.
00:14:16.160 Only 1% is seized.
00:14:17.920 But with all the border security along the Mexican side, I have no doubt that people are being caught more often smuggling drugs.
00:14:24.960 On the Canadian side, I have heard that we don't even have scanners that work at most ports of entry.
00:14:30.280 If they are there, sometimes they don't even work.
00:14:32.480 We barely check any sea cans that come in from ships.
00:14:36.420 We do not actually patrol the undefended parts of the border very much at all.
00:14:40.740 And then, again, they have no ability, if they see a package in your car,
00:14:46.020 if a package is coming from the U.S. border through the Canadian border with a package,
00:14:51.480 they have no authority to even check it if it's under 500 grams.
00:14:54.860 They have no ability to get a warrant.
00:14:56.800 That's ridiculous in an era where drugs are extremely powerful despite their weight.
00:15:01.540 But anyways, so with that, like the video, subscribe, leave a comment, do all that other fantastic stuff,
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