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@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
🇨🇦’s wild these days. - Money laundering capital of the world - the global fentanyl “command & control center” - home to transnational organized crime heads - at least 1 in 7,800 residents are members of organized crimes. How did this happen so fast? <thread> 🧵👇
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
2/ first of all, most folks in 🇨🇦 don’t realize how bad things are yet, they’re just dealing with the consequences. Soaring housing costs. Rising car thefts. Unaffordable housing, Overdoses in your hood. Violence in your streets. All related.
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
3/ 🇨🇦’s home prices soared in the mid-2010s due to laundering. Fentanyl proceeds were washed in casinos, then layered w/housing. It’s now called the Vancouver model. Home prices surged since comps were skewed, & launderers WANT to pay more. Dive into this later.
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
4/ Speaking of casinos & housing—let’s talk about car thefts. In 2017 🇨🇦’s fin crime intel warned the gov that the world’s largest car theft gang set up shop in ON. It was washing cash in *drumroll* casinos & housing. Total mystery how that played out.
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
Notice a surge in car thefts? 🙋♂️ Many are exported to Africa. You know those Nigerian Price emails? Same folks. An "ultra-violent cult" from Nigeria built one of the most complex criminal networks in history & you'll never guess how they wash money. <thread> 🧵👇
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
5/ Fentanyl has been a wild controversy since we’re pretending it isn’t because the 🇺🇸 is. Asia’s “El Chapo” was from Toronto’s burbs. 🇨🇦’s largest banks have been implicated in operations. The head of the trade is a former Team 🇨🇦 snowboarder. Monthly super lab busts.
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
6/ things are so wild in 🇨🇦 rn that it had to arrest its top spy for working with a global money launderer. It tired to bury the story. & I don’t thin hens serving time in prison. He’s preparing to appeal since 🇨🇦 doesn’t have laws to address its highest spy working against it.
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
7/ speaking of free range criminals, 🇨🇦 is the only place where you can see war criminals mingle with mafia dons, dragon heads, & terrorists. Global crime considers it neutral territory, so they meet here. Heck, top global assassins have even arrived on student visas recently.
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
8/ the prevalence of organized crime & apathy around it led to the capture of government. 🇨🇦’s intel agency estimates organized crime groups infiltrated government & inflate contracts by 50% on avg. We know QC has a problem because it looked into it. Places like NS never will.
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
6/ It’s not just BC. In 🇨🇦, every jokes that driving on a bad road is like visiting Montreal. When I began working w/anti-corruption orgs, I learned bad roads in cities w/huge road budgets are a sign of corruption. In 2009, 🇨🇦 got confirmation why. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/montreal-mafia-controls-80-per-cent-of-road-contracts-whistleblower-says/article4288973/
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
9/ It gets wilder. Organized crime is now so powerful in 🇨🇦 that law enforcement & gov are too scared to pursue it. Seriously. It won’t even try to pursue charges for certain crimes in some regions, and provinces like Ontario drop most charges.
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
10/ all of these problems can be targeted with a single tool—RICO laws. They allow the pursuit of criminal orgs based on a pattern of associates. It makes it easier to prosecute. Even if not used, they become a major deterrent. 🇺🇸’s implementation cleaned up NYC in the 70s.
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
11/ 🇨🇦 has really wanted to implement RICO laws too, but it couldn’t find the time in the past 50 years. I was surprised to see that @PierrePoilievre suggested RICO-like laws in his platform today. I didn’t even see it in the NDP platform, & that seems right up their alley.
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
Funny story. About a year ago I was crunching 🇨🇦’s immigration data & found a really neat issue. … over 1 in 6 of 🇨🇦’s claimed immigrants don’t actually exist in the country. <thread> 🧵👇
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
2/ I was looking at immigrant cohorts from the 1980s & forward, & noticed an interesting pattern: 1 in 7 would disappear from taxfiler data. They drop out faster in recent data, but still consistent. In finance a predictable pattern usually means 1 of 2 things: fraud or error.
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
3/ so I contact Stat Can & inquire to make sure I understood the data correctly. I did. About a month later, Stat Can conducts a study & concludes *drumroll* 1 in 6 immigrants probably left the country… since 1980. 🇨🇦 isn’t sure because it doesn’t track departures.
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
4/when you leave the country, they assume people are just on a long vacation & they’ll eventually come back. The US asked 🇨🇦 to start tracking its departures in 2013. We said we’d get it done by 2017. It was delayed & delayed until this year, when 🇨🇦 throttles immigration.
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
5/ this is fun for a few reasons. - 🇨🇦 can’t artificially inflate its population count going forward, since it will have verifiable public data. - 🇨🇦 under built housing, but not nearly as much as claimed. That’s why there isn’t millions of homeless folks prior to 2020
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
6/ That’s also part of the reason 🇨🇦 “feels” like its immigration problem is already easing despite just one quarter of slow growth. They built a lot of housing but cities like TO have higher rental vacancy than pre-2020. Immigrant churn is much higher than we realize.
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
7/ so why is 🇨🇦 still using the same junk population model if it knows it was wrong since the 80s? The incentive is slanted towards over counting our population. After all, elites don’t view you as people—you’re human cashflow.
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
8/ that’s why population growth is key to a country’s debt & a major factor for its credit rating. High growth regions have more cashflow, meaning it’s easier to pay back its debt. That means less risk & more leverage for governments to funnel cash to infrastructure firms.
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
9/ this population growth to cash flow model requires the population to be of prime working age (18 to 54 years old). As a result, immigration is preferred to families. Raising a child is costly to a state, but finding readymade labor is an asset.
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
10/ it’s important to remember is that artificial cashflow doesn’t exist. Rising carrying costs still need to be distributed amongst a real base, not an inflated one. It doesn’t matter how many artificial people there are, they don’t pay. More: https://betterdwelling.com/canadas-population-grew-fast-but-it-was-massively-overstated/
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
ps more on the wild accounting that 🇨🇦 started adopting. If 🇨🇦 were a public company, its CFO would be in jail for fraud… but it’s not, and even fraudsters don’t get jail in Canada. 🤷♂️
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
🇨🇦 just busted 3 fentanyl labs in 2 days. All well equipped, industrial scale facilities within a short-drive of each other in BC. All to produce the fentanyl 🇨🇦 totally doesn’t have. Tragically I’m not your fentanyl czar, but here’s what I’d notice if I were. 😉 <thread>🧵👇 https://t.co/qCfsHNl0o8
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
2/ this is a fun photo. Nothing brown is used to synth fentanyl. Precursors are clear or white. But aniline, an essential manufacturing chem, is light brown & darkens as it oxidizes. Only problem is aniline isn’t used in fentanyl production. wtf, eh? https://t.co/zzzxVGO5HP
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
3/ However, aniline is used to make fentanyl precursors. RCMP said 2 of 3 labs in the fentanyl bust were manufacturing fentanyl. What was the 3rd? I’m not a fishing license expert like 🇨🇦’s newly appointed fentanyl czar, but it sure looks like a precursor lab.
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
4/ But that can’t be! 🇨🇦 doesn’t have any fentanyl. That means it definitely doesn’t have the dozens of industrial scale labs that were busted over the past few months. It definitely doesn’t have precursor labs. That’s preposterous! Something, something, China! Mexico!
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
4/ anyway, if you’re new here—I’m being sarcastic. I’ve been arguing w/🇨🇦’s gov about fentanyl proceeds laundered through our banks & housing for like a decade. 🇨🇦 is the command & control center of the global fentanyl trade. Ignoring it just b/c Trump said it, is reckless to us
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
6/ Seriously, you have no idea ho bad 🇨🇦’s fentanyl problem is. You know how 🇨🇦 is now the global center of money laundering? That’s smaller than 🇨🇦’s fentanyl trade.
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
You know how 🇨🇦 is a global money laundering hub? Well, according to 🇨🇦’s intel agencies it has over 50% more organized crime groups that deal with fentanyl. Fentanyl is 2nd only to cocaine for organized crime activity in 🇨🇦. Anyway, glad there’s no fentanyl in 🇨🇦. 😬😂 https://t.co/J5zV3AznxT
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
7/ also the RCMP is cracking down in BC & the Province is helping. Ontario is the where the actual control center is located, and they aren’t doing a thing because it’s bad for business. In fact, mention how many busts are related to ON + ON folks scream it’s a lie.
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
8/ 🇨🇦’s gov told you it has no fentanyl, & definitely doesn’t export. … just a few weeks after 🇨🇦’s intel wrote in a report that it has an extensive fentanyl industry that exports. 🇨🇦’s Schrödinger Fentanyl problem. It’s a crisis & doesn’t exist all the same time. 🤷♂️
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
“🇨🇦 has no fentanyl” example #322,656 🇨🇦’s intel used this fun slide recently: - 🇨🇦 has 235 known organized crime groups involved in fentanyl (most in BC & ON) - 🇨🇦 engages in “mass production” - domestic self-sufficiency, meaning 🇨🇦 makes so much it’s a net exporter https://t.co/Zmk6urWMga
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
9/ surely if 🇨🇦 had a drug & money laundering problem, it would have more crime stats! Nope, because MOST criminal charges in places like Ontario are dropped. No day in court, no crime. Case closed!
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
Ontario, 🇨🇦 is the: - global fentanyl control center - global car theft capital; and - global money laundering hub So what’s Ontario’s one weird trick to low crime stats? Its gov began dropping MOST charges. Trafficking, rape, extortion, etc. No need to proceed. 🤷♂️
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
10/ great time to traffic fentanyl though. It looks like 🇨🇦 is dropping fentanyl trafficking charges to avoid any official statistics on conviction. Probably also a great time to go long on fentanyl treatment centers. Hamilton recently lined the streets with them.
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
🇨🇦 hiding a lot more fentanyl trafficking. A whopping 19 FENTANYL TRAFFICKING CASES DROPPED OVER 7 DAYS IN ONE CITY. Why would 🇨🇦 do that? 🤷♂️ Police bust massive rings, it makes the news, the gov drops charges. What fentanyl trafficking? There’s no convictions. 🙄 https://t.co/svn1t4Od8Q
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
11/ remember the time firefighters accidentally stumbled in a stash of fentanyl large enough to wipe out Toronto? Weird how he person lived w/the brother of the Danforth shooter—who totally wasn’t a terrorist. Just a lonely guy who shot people at random. Oh that reminds me…
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
12/ 🇨🇦 doesn’t have murders but a lot of folks overdose. In fact, a lot are OD-ing with no known drug history. Randomly. Weird. Anyway, hot shotting is when a person kills another by overdosing them unwittingly. A mom in B.C. fought to find that out from the gov.
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
13/ I should wrap up, but I’ll leave you with this. Think it’s going to change? I asked Carney’s team if they had a plan to address fentanyl, and they unfollowed me. Team Fentanyl is now PM. So good luck kids, this problem is going to get a lot worse real fast.
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
Walmart employee “Mary” made a viral video showing it’s impossible to lock yourself in an oven. It’s now deleted. Anyone know if Walmart fired her or made them delete it? https://t.co/DjDGeFxQez
@StephenPunwasi - Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️
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