Canada’s role in the international narcotics trade has been a subject of intense domestic scrutiny over the past decade. In 2022, the Cullen Commission warned about the “enormous volume of illicit funds” being filtered through the British Columbia economy, an amount estimated in the billions of dollars. Yet money laundering charges are rare, the commission found, because “police conducting investigations into profit-oriented criminal activity, such as drug dealing, are not investigating these offences.”
There are cross border reserves where the Canadian government has little to no authority. There is literally no way to secure the border without maasive buy in from tribes of people who don’t like the Canadian or US governments.
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Oh for fuck’s sake just let us have drugs and money.
Best I can do is a housing bubble.
but I thought that guy insists that The Wall is needed to solve the problem. Now you say it’s more nuanced than that???
Seems like you’re not enough anymore. Sorry bud.
There are cross border reserves where the Canadian government has little to no authority. There is literally no way to secure the border without maasive buy in from tribes of people who don’t like the Canadian or US governments.
The linked article primarily discusses Canada’s lax money laundering laws.