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RCMP in BC seized a record number of drugs and firearms from what they believe is Canada's largest and most sophisticated drug super lab. The seizure included 390 kilograms of methamphetamine, 54 kilograms of fentanyl, and 35 kilograms of cocaine, along with unregulated precursor chemicals. The drug lab was uncovered in Falkland, Northwest of Vernon. Police claim the over 95,000,000 potentially lethal doses of fentanyl seized could have killed every Canadian at least twice over. Investigators also searched locations in Surrey, discovering 89 guns and explosives. The months-long investigation was conducted by the RCMP Federal Policing Program. Gangnam Creek Rondawa faces six drugs and firearms charges, and police say the investigation is ongoing, with more people potentially facing charges.

Canada's largest drug bust occurred in Falkland, British Columbia, where the RCMP dismantled a sophisticated drug super lab. They seized over 54 kilograms of fentanyl, 390 kilograms of methamphetamine, 35 kilograms of cocaine, and 89 firearms, including handguns and rifles. Locals reported increased police helicopter activity but were unaware of the operation's significance. Only one person, Gaganpreet Randhawa, has been charged. There is a concerning trend of Sikh Punjabis being involved in drug-related crimes, with notable figures also implicated. For instance, Timupol's brother was previously charged in a drug sting. Additionally, Parminder Singh Deo is wanted in India for narcotics trafficking. The situation raises questions about immigration and potential drug issues among newcomers from Punjab, a region with significant addiction problems. The hope is that the RCMP will apprehend more individuals involved in this drug manufacturing network.

The Prime Minister is under fire for his "radical liberalization of hard drugs," specifically the decriminalization of fentanyl, crack, and heroin in partnership with the BCNDP, and lowered jail sentences for fentanyl producers. Eighty percent of fentanyl ingredients enter Canada unregulated, threatening the trade relationship with the U.S. The Prime Minister is accused of scoring "cheap political points" instead of delivering solutions based on science, compassion, and a public health approach to the toxic drug epidemic. The opposition claims it is irresponsible to allow unregulated fentanyl ingredients into the country and to decriminalize hard drugs, which has allegedly led to increased deaths. They also allege that the Prime Minister, along with the Bloc and NDP, recently voted in favor of a committee report to decriminalize fentanyl nationwide. The question is raised whether the Prime Minister opposes the decriminalization of the export.

The Prime Minister is under fire for his "radical liberalization of hard drugs," specifically the decriminalization of fentanyl, crack, and heroin in partnership with the BCNDP, and lowered jail sentences for fentanyl producers. Eighty percent of fentanyl ingredients enter Canada unregulated and are then manufactured into fentanyl. This threatens the trade relationship with the U.S. The Prime Minister is accused of scoring "cheap political points" instead of delivering solutions based on science, compassion, and public health. The opposition claims it is irresponsible to allow unregulated fentanyl ingredients into the country, decriminalize hard drugs, and then support decriminalization nationwide despite rising deaths. The Prime Minister is asked to confirm he opposes decriminalization.

I'm Frank Vaughn, and today we're examining money laundering and the illicit drug market in Canada. Finding accurate numbers is challenging, as official data is scarce. In 2007, drug seizures had a street value of over $2.6 billion, which, adjusted for inflation, is about $3.9 billion today. However, this figure is likely much lower than reality. Estimates suggest the drug market could be as high as $156 billion, considering the ratio of seized drugs to those that reach the market. Additionally, money laundering in Canada is estimated at $113 billion annually. Combining these figures, we arrive at a total of $269 billion, representing about 12% of Canada's GDP. This highlights a significant issue of organized crime and corruption within the country. Thank you for watching, and please consider supporting this work.

Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, originates from China and is trafficked into the US by cartels. Fentanyl analogs like Carfentanil and Xylazine are mixed with Fentanyl, causing severe harm to users. Cartels use various methods to smuggle Fentanyl into the US, including hiding it in vehicles and using migrants as carriers. Migrants become indebted to cartels, leading to exploitation. In 2023, 112,000 Americans died from Fentanyl, with 2024 expected to be worse. This crisis is described as chemical warfare originating from China.

We are announcing today charges against 324 defendants for their alleged participation in health care fraud schemes involving approximately $14,600,000,000 in false claims submitted to Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care programs. These criminals didn't just steal someone else's money. They stole from you. The days of transnational criminal organizations using the American health care programs as their personal piggy bank are over. Third, this takedown resulted in criminal charges against 74 defendants including medical professionals who fueled America's deadly opioid crisis for personal profit. This is not health care. It is a staggering breach of trust. Today's enforcement action represents the largest health care fraud takedown in American history, but it's not the end. It's the beginning of a new era of aggressive prosecution and data driven prevention.

Canada is described as sweeping the fentanyl issue under the rug by sources in the show, despite public moves like appointing a fentanyl czar and increasing northern border patrols after pressure from Trump and Kash Patel. The guest says Canadian law enforcement acknowledge the issue but feel resources are insufficient to crack down on transnational crime, with a sense that “the root of the problem” is not being addressed. The guest reports that the planning and production of fentanyl have shifted to Canada, with cartel operatives setting up labs there. They describe how cartels, after crackdowns on the southern border, moved operations into Canada where a visa is not needed for a tourist entry, allowing quick setup and networking with preexisting Canadian gangs such as the Hells Angels, Brother’s Keepers, Red Scorpion, and United Nations gang. Precursors come through the Port of Vancouver, where less than 1% of cargo is inspected, enabling easy importation of chemicals. The guest asserts that the majority of fentanyl production now occurs in Canada, with a claim of 99% certainty, and cites an operative for the Sinaloa Cartel in Canada showing labs on West Coast resources. Labs are described as often in suburban areas on farmland or small residences, not just in large urban centers. The production is said to have started in 2016-2017 as cartel operations moved into Canada, with ongoing Canadian law enforcement aware since then but under-resourced to counter transnational crime groups. The RCMP head reportedly estimated thousands of organized crime groups, but CSA’s Canadian intelligence suggests 668, highlighting a disconnect between agencies. The main cartel presence in Canada is labeled as Sinaloa and CJNG, with CJNG now possibly dominant due to Sinaloa’s weakening position and alliance with New Generation Cartel. The Canadian fentanyl flow includes enforcers recruited from Canada, including Quebec and Ontario, who manage payments, protection, and border activities to facilitate drug movement and violence. Recruitment extends globally to the Balkans, Armenia, Australia, England, and other Commonwealth countries to leverage foreign nationals who can blend in and avoid detection. Group chats reveal Canadian area codes and explicit hits-for-hire offers, with examples of payments (e.g., 55,000 Canadian dollars for a hit) and weapon procurement requirements. The border dynamics are described as significant: the northern border remains underprotected, allowing cross-border trafficking. The guest mentions that, even with a U.S. military or law enforcement option, the cartel leadership central to the operation would resist intensely if confronted on Mexican soil, implying that a direct US-backed intervention could be costly and dangerous for the cartel. A notable case described is a “BC Superlab,” a large, sophisticated operation producing meth and fentanyl, recovered in rural BC and Surrey, BC. Authorities found 400 kilograms of meth, 54 kilograms of fentanyl, plus MDMA and cocaine, plus 46 handguns, 21 AR-15 style rifles, 14 submachine guns, two .50 cal rifles, explosives, body armor, and nearly $1 million in cash. The lab’s equipment included jacketed reactors and other specialized items, with large quantities of precursors (5,000 liters of liquid precursor and 10 tons of powder) and evidence they may have been producing P2P, a key meth precursor. The RCMP described the operation as extremely sophisticated, with a network of metal ducting to vent fumes and a setup suggesting an international cross-border network with potential ties to Mexican cartel operations and other global criminal networks. Health Canada is testing unusual equipment to see if it signals new production methods. Investigators emphasize that the drugs were destined for abroad and that Vancouver’s infrastructure could facilitate expansion into Asia-Pacific markets, including China, Japan, India, Indonesia, Australia, and New Zealand. Despite the scale of the operation, only one person had been arrested at the time of reporting, underscoring the magnitude of the challenge and the global reach of the drug networks. Overall, the conversation frames Canada as a critical, expanding node in an international fentanyl production and distribution network, with entrenched organizational complexity, cross-border logistics, and multilingual, multinational recruitment that complicates enforcement.

The speaker claims the root of the fentanyl problem is the CCP, alleging that almost all fentanyl precursors originate from Mainland China, where hundreds of companies ship them globally. The CCP claims they don't make fentanyl, but instead provide all the necessary ingredients to Mexico. The speaker says that the CCP announced they would no longer sell one specific precursor, but there are 14 others that can be used to make fentanyl, and they are still shipping all of those. The speaker claims to have started an enterprise to target fentanyl precursor companies in Mainland China. The speaker states that these companies are now shipping precursors to places like India, and the Mexican cartels are manufacturing fentanyl in Mexico. Instead of going directly into America, the fentanyl is being flown into Vancouver, manufactured in Canada, and distributed globally from there.

Americans are coming through Vancouver, with precursors from Guangdong province. The Chinese Communist Party is turning a blind eye to the RCMP's request for help during the Meng Wan Wangzhou incident. This allows the CCP to facilitate the reverse opium war, destabilizing and undermining democracies. The Chinese Communist Party could control and stop the 100,000 deaths from Fentanyl overdoses, but they choose not to. Vancouver is a major distribution point for these drugs, which are then sent back to Asia. The CCP's relationship with organized crime allows them to easily stop this flow, but they have no willingness to do so. This is part of their hybrid warfare strategy to destabilize democracies worldwide.

Canada is losing thousands of young people to illicit fentanyl poisoning, which has become a mass murder weapon for Chinese communists and Mexican cartels. The biggest fentanyl lab in history was found in Vancouver, with ties to Chinese organized crime and biker gangs that have been hired to assassinate people in the United States. Canada needs to update its legal structures, as current laws hinder undercover police operations and contribute to low seizure statistics. Most of the drugs are going from Mexico to Canada and then being brought south into the Northwest United States on ships, but there is almost no port enforcement. The US needs Canada to update their legal structures and create a RICO act like in the United States and designate cartels as terrorists. We have to break the bank on fentanyl trafficking for these cartels and bring them down and take them out.

We conducted a statewide operation, arresting 219 undocumented immigrants and 253 individuals for crimes like sexual assault, aggravated assault, drug distribution, and firearm offenses. We also seized almost 15,000 pounds of illegal drugs, including fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine, and marijuana, along with 43 guns. This operation included every federal law enforcement agency in Arkansas, the Arkansas State Police, and the state's 19 drug task forces. The 219 undocumented immigrants came from 23 countries: India, Laos, Vietnam, Mauritania, Serbia, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Nigeria, Belize, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, The Dominican Republic, Cuba, Mexico, and The Marshall Islands.

"The Trump administration is is taking this very seriously, and they're not playing any game." "the seizure of these precursor chemicals, I believe it was 600,000 kilograms of precursors" "going after the cash here in America. Like, that you said that would cut off their lifeblood because they literally shipped cash back to Mexico in 18 wheelers." "We exported back close to $3,000,000,000 of bulk U. S. Currency." "18 wheelers, tractor trailers, commercial vehicles. And there is no seizures in the ten years. None." "That's their lifeline." "The market will be indicator of what's actually going on. And for right now, the market's indicating that there's still a lot of supply." "The Mexican people will be happy to get help going against these criminal organizations."

At a conference with high-level police and criminal intelligence officials, a very senior Canadian criminal intelligence official said Canadians have no idea how embedded the car Mexican cartels are in Canada. He described the cartels as billion dollar brutal terrorist organizations that work hand in glove with the CCP, who supply them precursors and launder their money around the world. He added that Chinese crime not only leaves lab production and gangsterism to the cartels, they've got their teams on shoulder to shoulder with the cartels as well, and that the CCP is at the top of the show. The official told the crowd that cartels are a billion dollar a day operation, extremely embedded worldwide and in Canada, thriving through corruption. He asked, 'So, are the cartels directly corrupting Canadian officials? I'm sure they are. There's no question.'

The "biggest and most sophisticated drug lab in Canadian history" has been dismantled in rural British Columbia. The RCMP seized 89 firearms, including a 50-caliber sniper rifle, restricted handguns, and AR-15 style rifles. Authorities seized 54 kilos of fentanyl, 390 kilos of meth, 35 kilos of cocaine, and 15 kilos of MDMA. The precursor chemicals and finished fentanyl products seized could have amounted to 95,000,000 potentially lethal doses of fentanyl. The lab was located in Falkland, about 40 kilometers west of Vernon, and raids were also conducted in Surrey, where most of the guns were found. Investigators believe there is a connection to cartels in Mexico and transnational criminals. Police seized half a million dollars in cash. Gaginpreet Randhawa faces six drug and weapons charges and remains in custody. Police would not say what countries the drugs were destined for.

The RCMP conducted raids in Falkland and Surrey, BC, dismantling what they call the biggest super lab in Canadian history. The operation seized a mountain of meth, cocaine, MDMA, fentanyl, and an arsenal of weapons, denying a transactional organized crime group an estimated $485 million in profits. The sophisticated operation, located on a rural property in Falkland, was capable of producing large quantities of meth and fentanyl. Thousands of kilograms of precursor chemicals, linked to Mexican cartels, were also seized. The drugs were believed to be destined for abroad, not the US. This bust is connected to another in Enderby, where 30,000 kilograms of precursor chemicals were seized. Only one man, Gaginpreet Singh Randhawa, has been arrested and faces six counts related to weapons and drugs, but the RCMP is promising more arrests. Mexican cartels operate in Canada through proxies. The cleanup of the Falkland property could cost over $1 million.

Under President Trump's direction to make America safe, the DOJ has faced over 200 civil lawsuits and 50 injunctions, with multiple cases before the Supreme Court. The DEA stated that Trump has "taken the handcuffs off of DEA agents." DOJ agencies have seized over 22 million fentanyl pills and 3,400 kilos of fentanyl, allegedly saving 258 million lives. ATF, along with DOJ agencies, seized 14,500 guns and 651,000 rounds of ammo, a 51% increase from 2024. The death penalty is being pursued in certain cases, including for arsonists, with nine arrests made across seven jurisdictions. An ISIS terrorist was apprehended in New York. An October 7 task force exists. A human trafficking ring linked to the Sinaloa cartel was dismantled, seizing meth, fentanyl, and 20,000 molly pills laced with fentanyl. 29 cartel members were brought back from Mexico, including one involved in the 1985 murder of DEA agent Kiki Camareno. 200 policies have been rescinded, ending DEI and weaponization.

Only 43 pounds of fentanyl were found last year, which is less than a carry-on suitcase. The vast majority of fentanyl is brought in through Mexico, not Canada. Last year alone, there was a 2000% increase in illegal fentanyl. You're asking me for the president's justification for these tariffs. It's disrespectful to the families who have lost loved ones to this deadly poison. They are grateful that they finally have a president who is standing up to both Canada and Mexico, and most importantly, to China as well. The president added an additional 10% tariff on China because this deadly poison is being produced there and distributed through our neighbors. There need to be consequences.

The discovery of several tons of unregulated chemicals believed to be used to produce P2P is of particular concern. P2P is a heavily controlled precursor and base ingredient used to make meth. Finding evidence that this group was manufacturing P2P from scratch is significant. Producing large quantities of chemicals requires people with chemical knowledge, such as a chemical engineer who has been working in industry. It could be a very well-organized situation. Manufacturing P2P from scratch was also the method used in the TV series Breaking Bad.

The RCMP mentioned a suspected connection to a Mexican cartel but didn't provide further details. A former head of the RCMP's transnational organized crime unit believes the operation involves significant contacts in cartel, Chinese, and Iranian networks, characterizing it as a corporation, not just gangs. Reports indicate increasing cooperation between international drug gangs, moving beyond the old narrative of them fighting each other. The RCMP stated the drugs were primarily destined for markets abroad. Vancouver possesses the logistical infrastructure, including ports, that cartels need to access the Asia Pacific market, which they haven't significantly tapped into in recent decades. Asia Pacific includes countries like China, Japan, India, Indonesia, Australia, and New Zealand.

Global news reports that a home in a Surrey neighborhood is allegedly linked to a criminal syndicate associated with Mexican drug cartels. In September, RCMP executed a search warrant at the fortified residence, seizing 23 firearms, thousands of rounds of ammunition, illicit drugs, cash, and multiple Mexican passports after a three-year investigation into a cocaine importation plot. The operation was disrupted by the arrest of a key leader of the Sinaloa cartel in Texas. Recently, RCMP announced this following the largest drug superlab bust in Canadian history. Three individuals connected to various gangs were arrested, including a Mexican national, but all were released without charges. The RCMP has recommended drug and weapons offenses, leaving the decision to crown counsel.

I'm Matthew Galiotti, head of the Justice Department's Criminal Division. Today we announce the largest coordinated health care fraud takedown in the history of the Department of Justice. We are announcing charges against three twenty four defendants for their alleged participation in health care fraud schemes involving approximately $14,600,000,000 in false claims submitted to Medicare, Medicaid and other health care programs. In a takedown this large, I can't possibly describe all of the work that went into dismantling each scheme. But there are four key points that bear emphasizing. First, these health care fraud schemes mean for every hardworking American family. These criminals didn't just steal someone else's money. They stole from you. Every fraudulent claim, every fake billing, every kickback scheme represents money taken directly from the pockets of American taxpayers who fund these essential programs through their hard work and sacrifice. And when criminals defraud these programs, they're not just committing theft. They're driving up our national deficit and threatening the long term viability of health care for seniors, disabled Americans and our most vulnerable citizens. This enforcement action involves the seizure of cash as well as luxury vehicles and properties returning real money to American taxpayers and to our government health care programs. Second, we are seeing a disturbing trend of transnational criminal organizations engaging in increasingly sophisticated and complex criminal schemes that defraud the American health care system. As part of this takedown, we've identified and charged defendants operating from Russia, Eastern Europe, Pakistan and other foreign countries. As just one example, we dismantled a scheme involving a sophisticated operation run from Russia and Eastern Europe that strategically bought dozens of medical supply companies in The United States and submitted more than $10,000,000,000 in fraudulent health care claims to Medicare. To make matters worse, these perpetrators used the stolen identities of more than 1,000,000 Americans spanning all 50 states to perpetrate this scheme and submit these false claims. But I'm pleased to report that federal agents intercepted and arrested key members of that organization at US airports and The US Mexico border, cutting off their intended escape routes. The days of transnational criminal organizations using the American health care programs as their personal piggy bank are over. Third, this takedown resulted in criminal charges against 74 defendants, including medical professionals who fueled America's deadly opioid crisis for personal profit. These are not isolated instances of poor judgment. These are calculated schemes designed to exploit Americans struggling with addiction while enriching the very people who were duty bound to help them heal. We charged pill mill operators who prescribed unnecessary opioids. We dismantled networks of corrupt pharmacies that existed solely to distribute drugs to addicts and dealers, feeding the addiction crisis that has devastated so many American communities. Fourth, many of the defendants charged as part of this takedown specifically targeted our most vulnerable citizens, elderly Americans in nursing homes, individuals with disabilities, those battling illnesses, and more. For example, our prosecutors charged seven defendants, including five medical professionals, in connection with approximately $1,000,000,000 in fraudulent claims to Medicare and other health care benefit programs for performing medically unnecessary skin grass on dying patients as they were seeking to spend their final days with dignity and peace. That conduct is exactly as callous and disturbing as it sounds. Patients and their families trusted these providers with their lives. Instead of receiving care, they became victims of elaborate criminal schemes.

Another message to the Mexican cartels: you have smuggled enough fentanyl to kill 148,000 young Americans, causing more deaths than all terrorist organizations combined. When President Trump returns to office, he will designate you as a terrorist organization and take decisive action against you. Your time is up.