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.
00:00:00.120Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. A very important story came out a couple days ago that has seemingly escaped most people's notice.
00:00:09.240The 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.
00:00:22.220Mark 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.
00:00:35.340They 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.
00:00:48.620And 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.
00:01:06.280So, 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.
00:01:16.020Again, 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.
00:01:29.900This 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.
00:01:40.600They have no ability to actually check packages for drugs.
00:01:44.720And again, we're supposed to believe only 59 grams of fentanyl have passed over the border.
00:01:50.300And again, the key word they always use is seized.
00:01:52.580Yes, 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.
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00:02:49.600But 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.
00:03:03.340I 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.
00:03:25.500And 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.
00:03:48.980And in the second line, though, he says,
00:03:51.800Canada has made vital progress to stop the scourge of fentanyl in North America.
00:03:56.880We are committed to continuing to do work with the United States to save lives and protect communities in both our countries.
00:04:03.420And one, I'm going to say, we have not made any progress on fentanyl.
00:04:07.820Just go into East Hastings in Vancouver.
00:04:10.360We let it run wild in many parts of the country.
00:04:13.660In fact, probably the only province really taking it seriously is my province of Alberta, where we are actually using involuntary care,
00:04:21.680and we are getting rid of safe injection or safe consumption programs to get people off of drugs.
00:04:27.340Because it turns out, giving people more drugs doesn't get them off of drugs.
00:04:32.300But now, let's jump over to this article.
00:04:56.360So 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.
00:05:24.720They absolutely do not care about international borders and will sell into the United States, too, or vice versa, from the United States into Canada.
00:05:33.760Thomas 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.
00:06:16.760There 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.
00:06:26.540When 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.
00:06:36.880When 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.
00:06:51.300You 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.
00:06:59.740So, one man gets arrested, and by the way, that drug lab wasn't too far away from the U.S. border.
00:07:06.720You 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.
00:07:19.380And Karik said, I hope I'm not saying his name wrong here.
00:07:22.920This 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.
00:07:40.940Quote, 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.
00:07:58.500While geopolitical and social unrest might be beyond the control of Canadians and their government, their level of preparedness and response is not, he said.
00:08:07.260The current Strong Border Act legislation proposed by the federal government gives police many, but not all, necessary tools to confront globalized crime, he said.
00:08:16.480The 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.
00:08:27.740Karik, 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.
00:08:37.260He said the government's legislation aligns closely with several resolutions the group has passed during the conference this week.
00:08:43.980Karik 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.
00:09:00.600You, they, they, the Canadian police cannot search a package that's under 500 grams.
00:09:07.480Do you think that drug dealers don't know that?
00:09:10.960So, 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.
00:09:22.940Maybe 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.
00:09:29.720The Americans don't have the authority to open Canadian packages before they penetrate the border.
00:09:35.040They have to catch them somewhere else along the way.
00:09:39.040And 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.,
00:09:47.840and now the U.S. has to deal with all the fentanyl that we are putting over the border.
00:09:52.260The 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.
00:10:02.860Well, what about the open sections of the border?
00:10:05.540What about the fact that when packages are being sent from Canada or sent to Canada, we don't even check any of it?
00:10:15.060And 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.
00:10:28.000Karek also repeated calls for bail reform.
00:10:31.060Quote, the federal government has proposed a crime bill this fall introducing tougher bail sentencing provisions, he said.
00:10:37.880Victoria Police Chief Adele Mannock agreed on the need for tougher release conditions.
00:10:44.180Mannock said police made 16 arrests during a two-day-long project to disrupt disorder in the city's downtown core.
00:10:49.940Quote, but what was telling was the number of rearrests that we made, he said.
00:10:53.660An individual arrested in one block was rearrested the next day, not far from his first arrest, all in his release on conditions, Mannock said.
00:11:01.200And so, yeah, this is obviously a bigger problem than Mark Carney and his liberal government want to make it out to be.
00:11:10.800They are belittling the Americans saying that, well, obviously there's no drug problem in Canada.
00:11:14.960While we have no RICO laws to actually crack down on these big drug operations that are operating next to the border,
00:11:21.080if you send drugs through the mail, the Canadian government is not going to suspect,
00:11:25.500hey, this 495-gram package feels like there's pills in here, maybe we should check what it is.
00:11:32.520We're just hoping that wherever post office it ends up in the United States, they'll deal with it then.
00:11:38.520That's ridiculous and it's not going to happen.
00:12:13.240We can see drug dealers doing stuff, but, you know, we're not going to do anything about it.
00:12:17.940And if we do catch the guy, we're just going to arrest the one guy we caught.
00:12:21.180We have no curiosity about how he, as one guy, is running this massive drug operation.
00:12:27.780We just ask no questions, arrest no other people, and the guy's probably going to be back out on the streets later.
00:12:34.060So, yeah, I'm not doing this out of a lack of patriotism, I love Canada, but Donald Trump is right about the border,
00:12:42.940that 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,
00:12:50.260and they just want us to reciprocate and do it on our side as well.
00:12:54.740Because, obviously, if the Americans are having to catch everything, they're not going to catch everything.
00:12:59.740It helps make it easier to catch a lot more when both sides of the border are working in tandem.
00:13:05.480And 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,
00:13:15.180we 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.
00:13:24.520And, again, we also have large, completely undefended parts of the border.
00:13:28.740You 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
00:13:39.240or 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?