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by tenpies 495 days ago
> 19kg of Fentanyl got smuggled from Canada into the US in 2024, not even 1% of the total.

I realize this is the Liberal's talking point, but it just doesn't add up. For starters they are talking about detected/caught smuggling, which is a terrible metric to use.

Then there's the problem of how much is being produced domestically. Just in Q4 of 2024, in Canada found:

* Super lab with 55 kilograms of fentanyl, 390 kilograms of methamphetamine, 35 kilograms of cocaine, 15 kilograms of MDM - https://globalnews.ca/news/10840910/largest-drug-superlab-bu...

* 30 tons of precursor chemicals - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/30-000-kilog...

* 31 kg of fentanyl and 7.6 tons of precursors - https://edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/merchants-of-death-to...

So that leaves us in a very awkward position with three possibilities:

* Canada has busted virtually every lab in Canada within the span of one quarter and was consuming amounts of fentanyl domestically that would render every Canadian an addict.

* Somewhere in Canada, someone is stockpiling absurd amounts of fentanyl just for fun.

* Canada is catching a negligently small fraction of what their crime syndicates are smuggling into the US.

I know which seems more likely to me.

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What confuses me, is that when I cross the border from Canada back into the US, it's the US customs folks I deal with, not Canadians. And it's the other way around when heading into Canada.

Isn't it the job of the US to catch drugs coming into the country?