Public Safety Minister David McGuinty said Ottawa is listing seven transnational criminal organizations as terrorist entities, as it seeks to bolster its fight against drugs like fentanyl to avoid U.S. tariffs.
“We appointed a fentanyl czar to coordinate between all levels of government, agencies and law enforcement to tackle the fentanyl crisis, which is ravaging our communities, and today, we’re going after the money,” McGuinty said during a press conference in Ottawa on Feb. 20.
The terrorist designation will expand the toolkit law enforcement can use to pursue investigations and “track, trace, find” the illicit financing of drug cartels and interrupt it, the minister said….