OTTAWA – More than 55,000 Canadians have died from opioid overdoses since national surveillance began in 2016. More than 7,000 died in 2022 alone. British Columbia has been in a declared public health emergency since 2016. The fentanyl death epidemic — driven by an alliance between Chinese Communist Party-connected chemical producers and Triads, Mexican cartels, and Snow Cartel proxies like the Wolfpack Alliance and Ryan Wedding — exploded from the epicenter of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside in 2012. Fourteen years on, the toll continues to mount. South of the border, in the world’s largest consumer drug market, nearly 1.3 million Americans have died from drug overdoses since 1999 — mostly fed by cartel trafficking and drug lab networks operating in Mexico, but increasingly in recent years by production networks rooted in Canada.
Canada’s Epidemic of Failed Fentanyl Prosecutions Contributes to Mounting Death Tolls
