{"id":17639,"date":"2025-02-19T17:55:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T17:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torontotribune.ca\/index.php\/2025\/02\/19\/canada-moving-to-list-criminal-cartels-as-terrorist-groups-national\/"},"modified":"2025-02-19T17:55:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T17:55:28","slug":"canada-moving-to-list-criminal-cartels-as-terrorist-groups-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torontotribune.ca\/index.php\/2025\/02\/19\/canada-moving-to-list-criminal-cartels-as-terrorist-groups-national\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada moving to list criminal cartels as terrorist groups – National"},"content":{"rendered":"


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With Canada\u2019s new fentanyl czar<\/a> now in place, Public Safety Minister David McGuinty said the next step in the fight against the opioid crisis is to designate criminal cartels<\/a> as terrorist entities under the country\u2019s Criminal Code.<\/p>\n

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Speaking Wednesday at Toronto Pearson International Airport, McGuinty said that listing cartels as terrorist groups will give law enforcement, such as RCMP and local police, more authority and more powers to \u201cfollow the money and to look and see how criminal cartels are using sophisticated laundering tactics.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now in downtown Toronto, there\u2019s a gathering of the leadership of the Public Safety Department with Finance Canada, with our fentanyl czar, and with our senior RCMP folks. They\u2019re meeting with the six largest chartered banks in Canada,\u201d he said during the media conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are inaugurating a new money laundering intelligence partnership and we\u2019re going to be supporting the sharing of money laundering and organized crime intelligence between our six banks and law enforcement to deal with the fentanyl crisis in the trade thereof.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He added that one of the most effective ways to tackle the fentanyl trade is to follow the money, cutting off the proceeds that fund organized crime \u2014 ultimately helping to dismantle the cartels profiting from dangerous and illegal drugs.<\/p>\n

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The announcement comes more than a week after\u00a0Canada appointed a new fentanyl czar<\/a>, part of the measures aimed at addressing concerns about border security made by United States President Donald Trump in tariff threats.<\/p>\n

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It is part of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau\u2019s new intelligence directive on organized crime and fentanyl that will be backed by $200 million in spending.<\/p>\n

Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on all imports from Canada and cited concerns about the flow of fentanyl and migrants across the border.<\/p>\n

Sweeping 25 per cent tariffs were set to be imposed earlier this month. Trump agreed to delay those for 30 days, with Trudeau saying that Canada had committed to border measures, including the listing of cartels and a fentanyl czar in those talks.<\/p>\n