Trump Calls Canada a Big Player in the Fentanyl Trade. Is It?

TORONTO — Standing behind heaping piles of drugs stacked in clear plastic bags and storage boxes, Toronto’s police chief last week announced the force’s largest-ever cocaine seizure, intercepted at the border in a truck entering from the United States. A few hours later, President Donald Trump also addressed cross-border drug trafficking — in his case, to lay blame on Canada, at least in part, for a deadly fentanyl scourge. “The fentanyl coming through Canada is massive,” Trump told reporters the day after his inauguration.

“The fentanyl coming through Mexico is massive. And people are getting killed and families are being destroyed.”.