Canada appoints Kevin Brosseau to serve as fentanyl czar

Canada on Tuesday appointed Fentanil Car in accordance with an agreement concluded with US President Donald Trump to avoid additional tariffs on Canadian import.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau He chose Kevin Brosseau, who had spent decades with the police of the royal Canadian mounted, for the position he had aimed at working with the US on “detection, disruption and removal of” Fentanil’s shop. His appointment comes into effect immediately.

Brosseau has an extensive experience of law enforcement, because during his career as a mountain he was a deputy commissioner and commander in Manitoba. He recently collaborated with Trudeau as his deputy counselor for national security and intelligence.

“Mr. Brosseau has embarked on the most sensitive safety challenges in Canada. His demonstrated expertise in the fight against drug trade, an organized crime network and other threats of national security will bring tremendous value to this position,” Trudeau said in his announcement.

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has appointed former Mountie Kevin Brosseau, who served as a Fentanil Emperor in the country. (Kevin Brosseau / x)

Brosseau’s appointment comes a few days after Trump threatened to impose an additional 25% tariff on Canadian imports, citing the flow of illegal foreigners and drugs, such as fentanis The northern border.

Trump agreed to a 30 -day break on the tariffs to evaluate Canada’s response to his requests, which revolved around the creation of a stronger limit.

In addition to appointing Fentanil Car, Trudeau said the country would implement a border plan of $ 1.3 billion used by helicopters, unmanned aircraft of Black Hawk, mobile supervisors and almost 10,000 staff first to protect the US-Kanade border .

Canada implements a $ 1.3 billion border plan to strengthen the presence and suppression of the Law on the Implementation of the Fentanil Act discovered at entrance points. (Cole Burson/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

He also said that organized crime cartels would be listed as terrorist entities to conduct criminal investigations in Canada.

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Focusing on Production and trade of fentanil, Canada will add a new and extended capacity to detect on the boundaries and build a Canadian drug analysis center in which authorities will study illegal drug samples to determine where and how they are produced.

“Although less than 1% of the fental of intercepts on the US border comes from Canada, any amount of fentali is too much,” Trudeau said, adding that “Fentanil must be wiped off the face of the earth, its production must be extinguished, and its profiteers must be punished. “

President Donald Trump threatened an additional 25% on Canadian import if the country did not increase security at the northern border. (Nicholas Kamm)

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Although Fentanil, which comes through the northern border, is much smaller than what comes from Mexico, US Customs agents seized 43 kilograms of fental on the Canadian border during the last fiscal year.

Agents at the border of the US-Mexico seized 21,100 pounds of fentanis in the same period of time.