At the very least, we should make our own procedures more efficient:
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Veterans in drug-trafficking investigations say that Canadian privacy and court procedure time limits also tend to severely limit pursuit of international criminals in Canada, in comparison to investigations by United States and Australian federal police.
Sources have said that Canadian police must file hundreds of pages of evidence in order to get phone intercepts for suspected drug kingpins approved by judges. But in the U.S., they say, such processes require much less paperwork and a more practical standard of evidence.
Australia and United States federal forces also have anti-drug trafficking policing operations in China that the RCMP lacks, sources said.
It’s infuriating to think that ordinary Canadians have to compete with criminals laundering drug money in the property market.
Some of these fentanyl stories are so outlandish. Here’s the pharmacy angle:
https://globalnews.ca/news/4458136/onta ... id-crisis/