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. 😉
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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?
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.
4/ But that can’t be! 🇨🇦 doesn’t have any fentanyl.
That means it definitely doesn’t have the dozens of industrial scale labs that were busted over the past few months.
It definitely doesn’t have precursor labs. That’s preposterous! Something, something, China! Mexico!
4/ anyway, if you’re new here—I’m being sarcastic. I’ve been arguing w/🇨🇦’s gov about fentanyl proceeds laundered through our banks & housing for like a decade.
🇨🇦 is the command & control center of the global fentanyl trade. Ignoring it just b/c Trump said it, is reckless to us
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.
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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.
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.
🇨🇦: fun story. Two guys fight. One gets murdered. The other gets murdered a year later.
🇨🇦's intel agencies pursue evidence alleging they were involved w/criminal activity.
Thankfully the intel agencies were redirected by the real experts—🇨🇦's politicians.
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2/ Good thing. It was the enemies of the politicians all along—India. 🇨🇦’s PM Trudeau notified the public it found "credible rumors.”
🇨🇦 goes from “Modi did it” to denying it, then calling one of its own intel agents a criminal faster than a bank bail out.
So weird. 🤷♂️
3/ anyway, not really about India.
It’s the fact 🇨🇦’s intel agencies are very capable but heavily manipulated by politicians.
They did this w/Sidewinder ~30 years ago—agents had allegations that politicians tried to suppress. Now we’re dealing w/fall out from not addressing it.