Fun fact: 🇨🇦 issues student visas to anyone with a few bucks.

Here’s a quick thread on the hundreds of criminals that organized crime groups set up in 🇨🇦 using student visas.

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2/ 🇺🇸’s DEA claims El Chapo made $3m/day in 🇨🇦 prior to his arrest, and they were surprised by how “deep infiltration” was.

His point man in 🇨🇦? Jesus Herrera Esperanza, aka Hondo—a “student” in 🇨🇦. No one knows where Hondo is these days. Image
3/ One of the world’s most powerful gangsters is former TO resident Lawrence Bishnoi—a 31 y/o that runs a global assassin & extortion network… from prison for the past 10 years.

His empire is allegedly run by his #2—Satinderjeet Singh, aka Goldy Brar. I wonder what he studied. Image
4/ speaking of Goldy Brar, two of his alleged associates arrived on student visas. They’re accused of participating in the murder that caused a diplomatic row with India.

One got a visa faster than someone in 🇨🇦 can get a license. Image
5/ it’s not a secret. 🇨🇦’s border agency audited 300 students & found 10 were organized crime.

Considering the CBSA fails to identify notorious mobsters & war criminals, these 10 must have wrote “gang stuff” under purpose of visit to be identified. Image
6/ You know how 🇨🇦 is considering pulling back on student visas because of the pressure on housing?

LOL. Nope! It’s because the CBSA testified that they realized back in 2018 that gangs were using student visas to send their members. Image
7/ to be fair, it’s a general problem in 🇨🇦.

Back in the day, 🇨🇦 used to be where organized crime heads would hide when they got in trouble to avoid scrutiny.

Word must have got out, because 🇨🇦’s now trying to catch 29k fugitives—300 considered immediate public danger. Image
8/ let’s quickly circle back to the CBSA finding this out in 2018.

That’s a lie. I know this because this is the index from a leaked CSIS report from 1996 on how the Triads are setting up in 🇨🇦.

Been bothering me for 10+ years now–even the leaks are missing this one section. Image

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Apr 23
🇨🇦’s wild these days.
- Money laundering capital of the world
- the global fentanyl “command & control center”
- home to transnational organized crime heads
- at least 1 in 7,800 residents are members of organized crimes.

How did this happen so fast?

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2/ first of all, most folks in 🇨🇦 don’t realize how bad things are yet, they’re just dealing with the consequences.

Soaring housing costs. Rising car thefts. Unaffordable housing, Overdoses in your hood. Violence in your streets.

All related.
3/ 🇨🇦’s home prices soared in the mid-2010s due to laundering.

Fentanyl proceeds were washed in casinos, then layered w/housing. It’s now called the Vancouver model.

Home prices surged since comps were skewed, & launderers WANT to pay more.

Dive into this later.
Read 11 tweets
Apr 22
Funny story. About a year ago I was crunching 🇨🇦’s immigration data & found a really neat issue.

… over 1 in 6 of 🇨🇦’s claimed immigrants don’t actually exist in the country.

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2/ I was looking at immigrant cohorts from the 1980s & forward, & noticed an interesting pattern: 1 in 7 would disappear from taxfiler data.

They drop out faster in recent data, but still consistent. In finance a predictable pattern usually means 1 of 2 things: fraud or error.
3/ so I contact Stat Can & inquire to make sure I understood the data correctly. I did.

About a month later, Stat Can conducts a study & concludes *drumroll* 1 in 6 immigrants probably left the country… since 1980.

🇨🇦 isn’t sure because it doesn’t track departures.
Read 11 tweets
Apr 13
🇨🇦 just busted 3 fentanyl labs in 2 days.

All well equipped, industrial scale facilities within a short-drive of each other in BC. All to produce the fentanyl 🇨🇦 totally doesn’t have.

Tragically I’m not your fentanyl czar, but here’s what I’d notice if I were. 😉

<thread>🧵👇 Image
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2/ this is a fun photo. Nothing brown is used to synth fentanyl. Precursors are clear or white.

But aniline, an essential manufacturing chem, is light brown & darkens as it oxidizes.

Only problem is aniline isn’t used in fentanyl production. wtf, eh? Image
3/ However, aniline is used to make fentanyl precursors. RCMP said 2 of 3 labs in the fentanyl bust were manufacturing fentanyl.

What was the 3rd? I’m not a fishing license expert like 🇨🇦’s newly appointed fentanyl czar, but it sure looks like a precursor lab.
Read 13 tweets
Feb 24
Is 🇨🇦’s healthcare system failing due to socialism or capitalism?

Neither. The math is pretty clear—this is just straight up greed, facilitated by crummy people.

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2/ first off, everyone forgets it's hard to be a doctor.

Most people can't finish a book.

A doctor in 🇨🇦 is the result of a 13 year old who decides they'll top their class & do 12-years of post-secondary training to start their career.

Let this point REALLY sink in.
3/ I mean, really sink in. You're delusional if you think you could do it. I couldn't.

The folks in charge didn't need that training. Ontario elected a high school drop out (about to be re-elected). 🇨🇦 elected a high school teacher.

My point isn't to make fun of politicians...
Read 19 tweets
Feb 12
Folks in 🇨🇦 keep explaining to me that we don’t have 🇺🇸-like crime.

It’s true. Here’s a brief list of the 🇺🇸 crime that never happens in 🇨🇦.

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2. in 🇺🇸, their anti-money laundering & enforcement budgets are soaring to deal with crime.

In 🇨🇦, we’re so confident that there’s no laundering that politicians confidently slash the budgets. Image
3. In 🇺🇸, defunding the police is extremely controversial.

In 🇨🇦, we don’t hesitate. Ontario immediately cut its financial crimes unit. Image
Read 9 tweets
Feb 7
People think 🇨🇦 is lax on money laundering because it’s good for the economy. Nope.

It’s so much worse. The lax enforcement turned into organized crime capturing 🇨🇦. The legal system is now too scared to act. Seriously.

<thread> 🧵👇
2/ First off, let’s talk about how extensive 🇨🇦’s organized crime (OG) problem is. The country’s OG intel agency estimates 2,600 groups operate in the country.

Since a gang is 3 people or more, at minimum they’re estimating 1 in 4000 adults are OC members. Image
3/ that means the ratio of OC to normal people is higher than the concentration of high school school teachers to people in Toronto.

Think about that for a second—how often do you see high schools across Toronto? Well, you’re more likely to see OC members than a teacher in one.
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