Kanada/USA. Trudeau Promises Canada “Fentanyl Czar” to Avoid Trump Tariffs
Kanada/USA. Trudeau Promises Canada “Fentanyl Czar” to Avoid Trump Tariffs
In a successful bid to stave off impending tariffs from President Donald Trump, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resurfaced a December 2024 plan from Public Safety Canada to spend $1.3 billion increasing border security, this time with a few new additions.
On February 3, Trudeau posted on social media that he’d “just had a good call” with Trump. In addition to implementation of the border plan, he announced the creation of a “fentanyl czar;” a ”Canada-US Joint Strike Force” with a focus on fentanyl interdiction; and a move to classify transnational drug-trafficking organizations as terrorists, as the Trump administration is doing. (Filter, USA, 07.02.2025)
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