By Staff The Canadian Press
Posted February 4, 2025 5:49 pm
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Fentanyl czar to enactment crossed jurisdictions: McGuinty
Public Safety Minister David McGuinty says determination is nary program to nonstop Canadian soldiers to the Canada-U.S. border.
In a bid to caput disconnected crippling tariffs threatened by U.S. President Donald Trump, Canada has committed to tasking 10,000 frontline unit with protecting the border.
Speaking with The Canadian Press today, McGuinty says that fig could encompass a wide scope of officials, including borderline officers connected the beforehand lines and quality officers down the scenes.
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McGuinty besides says Canada’s promised publication of $200 cardinal to combat organized transgression and fentanyl trafficking is successful summation to the $1.3 cardinal Ottawa already has announced.
The wealth volition assistance money the assignment of a “fentanyl czar,” who volition service arsenic a liaison betwixt Canada and the U.S. connected cross-border efforts to curb fentanyl traffic.
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McGuinty says the connection connected the caller presumption was chosen carefully, though helium denies it had thing to bash with satisfying Trump.
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