Seven months after federal RCMP officers raided Canada’s biggest and most sophisticated meth and fentanyl lab, only one person has been charged: a 32-year-old whose only previous conviction was for lower-level drug dealing near Vancouver.
The bust of the so-called “superlab” occurred last October, just weeks before U.S. President Donald Trump was re-elected and started making false claims about Canadian fentanyl “pouring” into his country, part of his pretext for the tariffs that have ignited a trade war. The discovery of the lab in British Columbia’s rural Shuswap region made headlines in major U.S. media.
