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Alberta Politics

But trump said it was an issue, so it must be true.

The amount of people who still take him at his word is insane. He just says things and sees what sticks. Alberta is now spending millions to fix a non issue, just to try and suck up to trump.

He doesn't actually care about the border, and trying to appease him won't make the tariffs go away. He doesn't have a real reason for imposing the tariffs. It's just something he's decided he wants to do, and if he decides to go through with it no amount of bootlicking will stop it. If he wants the tariffs then he will just say that our effort wasn't good enough no matter what.
 
Airboy said:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-montana-border-donald-trump-danielle-smith-1.7409888

when even her areas of support question her policy.
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TBH it is a solution in search of a problem. Really, illegal immigrants aren't pouring across the Alberta/Montana border and probably the illegal drug traffic across the border is also a fairly tiny portion of the total.

Probably mostly just coyotes (the real ones, the animals with fur) crossing through the fields I suspect.
 
Airboy said:
The quantities of drugs needed to make money you would need a transport truck.........
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Sounds like you know a lot about this sort of thing.. ;)

Admittedly, I do not. So I was quite surprised to find out that the problem with Canada isn't drug trafficking, but drug production

As Beijing’s ban left a hole in the market, and the acquisition of precursors was easy (80 per cent of them were legal in Canada in 2022), Mexican and Canadian gangs quickly ramped up domestic production — between 2020 and 2021, Canadian border seizures of fentanyl precursors increased tenfold. The COVID-19 pandemic only intensified this trend by interrupting global trade.

Most Mexican fentanyl is intended for international resale — between 2019 and 2023, for example, annual seizures of the drug at the U.S./Mexico border ballooned by over 1,000 per cent (from 1,154 kg to 12,247 kg). Meanwhile, Canadian fentanyl was initially absorbed by the domestic market. But by 2021 there was such an oversupply that local prices dropped 30 per cent, pushing gangs to sell abroad.
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From this article here, interesting read...

nationalpost.com

Adam Zivo: Trump has reason to fear Canada's fentanyl traffickers

Canada is not yet the Colombia of fentanyl, but action is needed now before things get out of hand
nationalpost.com nationalpost.com
 
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