Fintanel attacks in the northern American border – but Canada is still a very small player

The latest data from customs and US border protection (CBP) shows an increase in the amount of fentanel that was seized near the northern American border with Canada – but the quantities that were intercepted remain a small part of the following from Mexico.

Numbers show that the border guards who were transported in a relatively small amount of deadly drug in the first few months of the fiscal year 2024-25-often are 0.5 kg or less than jumping in April and May, when officials seized six and 14 kilograms, respectively, near the Canadian border.

These statues mean that more fentanel has been seized along the northern border so far this year more than 2023-24. Between October 2024 and May, the United States acquired 26 kilograms compared to 19.5 kilograms that was seized within 12 months.

On the southwestern American border with Mexico, in comparison, officials have so far seized about 3,700 kilograms of fentanel in this fiscal year – enough products to kill hundreds of thousands of drug users easily, which easily increases what officials from Canada discovered.

A CBP spokesman did not respond to a request to comment on this story.

Border data does not provide details about how or the place of seizure of fentanel, or why there was a noticeable rise near the northern border in the past two months. What is known is that there are seven “events of a bout” in April and five in May.

In an interview with CBC News, Ventanil Caisar said in Canada, Kevin Bruceen, he was concerned about Americans who take more drugs, saying that one gram was captured anywhere near the border is too much.

It is possible, with US President Donald Trump’s focus on the southern border, that some criminal elements may turn into Canada.

“If additional pressure is placed on one side, they will look to go to another place,” said Broso about the carts that move these medications.

“We must be inconsistent,” he said, and promised to continue an aggressive approach to intercepting the drugs and those that they are going through. The government of Prime Minister Mark Carne The legislation was presented recently It would help do so.

“We really focus on closing them,” said Broso. “Anything south of Canada must stop.”

While Broso, while the slight height of fentiannets, Bruusso said that he took some rest from a new report issued by the Manhattan Institute, a US-based research center, which shows that Canada was not the main supplier of Fintanel to the states-far from that.

From 2013 to 2024, 99 percent of the birth control pills and 97 percent of the crushed fentanel that was captured in large seizures on the borders of the American land came, and the researchers-with a “large” definition as more than a kilogram of the powder or more than 1000 tablets, and the vulnerable quantities of wholesale wandering.

“The largest source of this problem for the United States is Mexico, and this is another study that confirms this,” said Broso.

“He repeats what we were saying from the beginning,” he said.

The report has found that Mexico style is a great source of fentianil for the United States that has withstood in recent years – despite Trump’s allegations that the drug was “flowing” from Canada and It justifies punitive definitions. Carney is closed in negotiations for border tariffs associated with fentanel, And the otherIt was raised by the end of the month.

In 2023-24, American provinces on the border with Mexico, which make up 2.35 percent of the American population, are about 40 percent of large fentanel attacks.

Meanwhile, provinces along the border with Canada, which carry 3.1 percent of the population of the United States, were less than 2.5 percent of large seizures.

“The things we face on the northern border are a very small share” of the United States’ supply, “said Jonathan Kolkins, a professor at Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburg and co -author of this research report.

He said: “Does any fentanel cross from Canada to the United States? Certainly. Some drugs cross the borders between any country in the world. The real question is where the largest part of it comes? And not from Canada.”

While Trump and his officials point out a rise in fentianel attacks on the northern border, Kaogkins said there was “a giant increase in the percentage because it starts from a very low base.”

In 2023-24, for example, CBP seized less than a kilogram, before taking about 19.5 kg next year. This increases approximately 1850 percent-which is a banned eye number that blocks the extent of which is truly seized.

US Minister of Internal Security Christie sleep This percentage raised the increases during a recent visit to MichiganShe said that former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was “a train wreck” and that Trump and his team “do not let our guard.”

Kolkins said that while trafficking numbers are relatively small, this does not mean that Canada is an area free of fentanel.

After all, More than 52000 deaths of clear Apionian toxicity It was reported between January 2016 and December 2024 in Canada, according to federal data. In 2024, it included 74 percent of those deaths.

Late last year, the police in British Columbia Set the so -called “Super Lab”. The authorities believe that it was producing fentanels for both the local and American markets. Federal investigators seized 54 kilograms of fentanel.

“For both Canada and the United States, the size of the death is amazing. I don’t want to make it look like that,” hey, just relax. “

“But the movement between our two parties is not in fact the important story. We are both in suffering from the problem of fentanel that none of us is caused.”

Kaogkins said that Canada and the United States will present well by working more closely to try to eliminate fentanel, saying that the hostile approach has opposite results.

“If you really care about controlling your borders, the most important thing to do is to work in a cooperative way with the country on the other side,” he said.

This is what Proso is trying to do.

Proso said that in the five months he spent at work, he helped enhance more intelligence sharing between the two countries, which helped lead more seizures here.

Only last month, Ontario Province police stated that recent law enforcement has performed A seizure of about 43.5 kilograms of fentanelThe equivalent of approximately 435,000 doses at the fatal street level.

“It seems every week, there is another important bust. I think this talks about the fact that there is more intensity in this effort,” said Brucene.

Caesar said that every day he speaks to the US National Narcotics Policy Office, which provides directly to Trump, and the Americans there showed “deep appreciation and recognition” of Canada’s efforts to deal with Fintanel.

“Canada on this. We are our role to be a good neighbor,” he said.