Drug cartels and Chinese fentanyl producers are using Canada as a “critical node” in their global trafficking of illicit drugs, capitalizing on “corrupted” public and private companies and employing First Nations’ land to broaden their reach, the head of intelligence for the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) says.
Canadian logistics and supply chains have been jeopardized by criminal organizations operating with “unprecedented sophistication,” alongside foreign adversaries attempting to destabilize Canada through organized crime groups, OPP intelligence chief Pat Morris told the House of Commons public safety committee on Nov. 18.
Morris told MPs on the committee the OPP and other law enforcement agencies are dealing with numerous threats from foreign adversaries, transnational drug cartels, organized crime groups, and terrorist and extremist entities like India’s Bishnoi Gang….