True Patriot Love - April 08, 2026


Sam Cooper Explains Canada's $200 Billion Laundering Crisis #shorts

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Shara Micucci Mike Wixson
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David Lane
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Length

1 minute

Words per minute

145.69

Word count

208

Sentence count

10

Harmful content

Hate speech

2

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Summary

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In the early 2000s, the CCP, the cartels, and the Hells Angels started to turn Western Canada into a Sinaloa-like synthetic narcotic production hub. The scenes that I could only see in downtown Vancouver as a young reporter were across Canada. The drug labs for synthetics are across Canada and the money laundering system feeding into the big six banks, down to law offices, stock traders, cryptocurrency, pick it.

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00:00:00.000 In the early 2000s, the CCP, the cartels, and the Hells Angels, who work under them and with him, 0.71
00:00:07.200 along with the Iranian state actors, started to turn Western Canada into a, let's just call it a Sinaloa-like synthetic narcotic production hub.
00:00:18.900 So that's across Canada now, completely consistent with the death zones you now see in small and large communities across Canada for fentanyl. 0.92
00:00:27.400 The scenes that I could only see in downtown Vancouver as a young reporter across Canada, the drug labs for synthetics are across Canada and the money laundering system feeding into the big six banks down to law offices, stock traders, cryptocurrency, pick it, pick an industry, oil fields, resources.
00:00:50.020 You know, this is genuine infiltration at all levels, right?
00:00:53.680 It's at all levels. And I could end my answer by saying I just reported on a great new report from David Luna, former sort of senior U.S. State Department counter-narcotics and intelligence official. I've worked with him and others. He came out with a new report pointing to an, this is a quote, unprecedented convergence of nearly 700 crime groups on the soil in Canada connecting to 48 foreign nations.
00:01:19.060 and he assesses over $200 billion laundered per year through Canada.