Why is Trump threatening Canada? The situation is far worse than you think!

Multiple reports are proving that Donald Trump’s claims that Canada’s lax approach to fentanyl poses a grave threat is even worse than the U.S. president has stated.

(LifeSiteNews) — A report from the Dana Cambole Show gives a sensational explanation on why U.S. President Donald Trump seems to have Canada in his sights. Her guest on the ITM Trading Channel is the Canadian investigative journalist Samuel Cooper, who says: “Canada has become a node of Chinese infiltration and organized crime activity – especially in Vancouver.”

His bold claim buttresses the accusations made by Trump that the U.S. faces a crisis on its northern border. On February 1, Trump issued an executive order titled, “Imposing Duties to Arrest the Flow of Illicit Drugs Across Our Northern Border”

In it, Trump said his measures to impose punishing trade tariffs were to address the “challenges” presented by the “Gang members, smugglers, human traffickers, and illicit drugs of all kinds [which] have poured across our borders and into our communities.”

He said the Canadian government had failed in its duty to address these issues.

“Canada has played a central role in these challenges, including by failing to devote sufficient attention and resources or meaningfully coordinate with United States law enforcement partners to effectively stem the tide of illicit drugs.”

Is Trump ‘invading’ Canada?

These bold claims have been interpreted as a means of dictating to – or even “annexing” Canada. This has “soured relations” with Canadians, as the Chinese Toronto-based journalist Kevin Jiang reports.

Some critics argue Trump is not serious about fentanyl or crime, and is simply undermining Canadian sovereignty and even threatening to “invade” Canada.

So, is what Trump says about Canada’s crime and border problem true?

Canada has become a Chinese drug production hub

Called “Wilful blindness: how a network of narcos tycoons and CCP agents have infiltrated the West,” its cover illustrates what Cooper sees as the center of a network of Chinese corruption and crime.

“The cover shows a graphic photo of Vancouver on a world map with fentanyl pills exploding out of Vancouver going around the world.”

“Vancouver has become a production hub for China and a trans-shipment hub for fentanyl precursors.”

Cooper says that whilst he is “not pleased with Donald Trump’s rhetoric,” he maintains, “This gets to what Donald Trump is saying.”

“It’s hard for many people to believe that Canada could be put in the same category as Mexico in terms of endangering the United States with fentanyl, illegal immigration and human trafficking,” Cooper says, before adding “…but my research has showed that indeed this is the fear and concern of the U.S. intelligence Community, military and law enforcement.”

Decades of Canadian weakness

How has this happened? Cooper says the problem has been brewing for years.

“For decades Canada’s weak enforcement against transnational crime weak, and control of borders has allowed international organized crime with linkages to hostile States – most specifically China but also Iran.”

His claims seem astonishing, and yet recent news reports all support his – and Trump’s – conclusions.

The biggest fentanyl superlab in the world

The top story on the Vancouver Sun today is the discovery of the biggest fentanyl factory in Canadian history. The owner, who is Canadian, did not name the tenants who used his property to build “Canada’s largest ever fentanyl superlab.”

“The Abbotsford man who owns the Falkland property where Canada’s largest-ever fentanyl superlab was discovered in October says he was just the landlord and unaware of what was going on there.”

David Asher, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, said it was in fact the largest fentanyl production site in the world, and was certainly linked to “Chinese organized crime.”

Speaking to Rosemary Barton on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Asher explained on February 9, “I think they are sitting on a big scandal here. How many other labs do you think they have going?”

Largest fentanyl lab ever discovered (superlab) busted in Vancouver. Chinese organized crime likely or Iran. Unreal, 100 million doses shipped South to NW US on ships through our ports that have no law enforcement… pic.twitter.com/hd7251emYm

— Special Situations 🌐 Research Newsletter (Jay) (@SpecialSitsNews) February 10, 2025

Asher, who has advised the U.S. State department on countering money laundering and terrorism financing, claimed “there’s very little border enforcement going on” in Canada, dismissing claims by the Canadian media that Canada’s cross-border drug trafficking into the U.S. was insignificant compared to that of Mexican cartels on the U.S. southern border.

Asher further claims that Mexican cartels are in fact transporting drugs by ship to Canada to be trafficked into the U.S., because “you have almost no port enforcement with police.”

In response to allegations made by the Trump administration that there is a security crisis on the northern border of the U.S., Canada has appointed a “fentanyl Czar,” promised to share more intelligence with the U.S., and said it is stepping up police checks and border controls.

These measures led to the 30 day “pause” of the threatened tariffs on Canadian trade with the U.S.

Canadian law is ‘crazy’

So what’s the U.S. government’s problem with Canada?

Asher praises the federal Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) but says the problem is Canadian law. Specifically, “The Stinchcombe Law” – a landmark ruling which Asher says means the Canadian police have to inform criminals they are watching them.

“Basically every time we try to go up on a phone number in Canada almost all the money laundering network is tied to China – and 90% percent of all the money laundering in the United States is tied to Canada.”

“So when we try to go up on those numbers with your police they have to inform the person that we are targeting that we are targeting their number. That’s crazy. How can we run an undercover police operation with your country?”

Asher explains why claims in the media that low seizure rates of fentanyl from Canada do not give the real story.

“Which is why we don’t run them. Which is why the seizure statistics are so low. We don’t even try to work with Canada because your laws are distorted.”

Asher recommends the passing of a RICO act – which he says “I think you’re going to do,” adding this will “solve these problems” in permitting law enforcement to correctly designate these networks as “criminal and racketeering operations” – and as a form of “terrorism.” Asher, together with Cooper, says Iran is also involved in drug trafficking in Canada.

When asked whether fentanyl and money laundering are the “real reason” for Trump’s threats, Asher said, “yes,” concluding: “Our countries are getting killed by fentanyl. We gotta protect ourselves.”

The Supreme Court of Canada appears to agree, ruling last December that constitutional privacy can be violated to address the national “opioid crisis.”

Massive money laundering operation

Is there any basis in reality for Asher’s claims on the scale of money laundering from Canada? Reports on the actions of the second biggest bank in Canada would suggest there is.

Last May Canada’s Toronto Dominion (TD) Bank was hit with the largest fine in history for money laundering, initially being ordered to pay around 9 million dollars.

In October 2024, following an investigation of its U.S. operations, TD Bank agreed to pay 3 billion dollars in fines. It had been found in one case to have “…facilitated over $400 million in transactions to launder funds on behalf of people selling fentanyl and other deadly drugs.”

Reuters reported the bank had “…failed to monitor over $18 trillion in customer activity for about a decade, enabling three money laundering networks to transfer illicit funds through accounts at the bank.” Employees had “openly joked” about the “lack of compliance “on multiple occasions.”

The Wall Street Journal reported on May 3, 2024 that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) was conducting an “investigation into TD Bank’s internal controls” which “focuses on how Chinese crime groups and drug traffickers used the Canadian lender to launder money from U.S. fentanyl sales.”

Reuters added how TD Bank’s “internal controls” had came under investigation, “since agents discovered a Chinese criminal operation bribed employees and brought large bags of cash into branches to launder millions of dollars in fentanyl sales through TD branches in New York and New Jersey.”

The charges against Canada are supported by facts presented by people who support and do not support Donald Trump, and the actions of Chinese billionaires and their comfortable relationship with Canadian law have been reported for years.

Though Trump’s habit of making headline-grabbing threats to secure agreement may be shocking, what is perhaps most shocking of all is to find out the facts behind the headlines are more damning than his description of the problem. Trump’s solution, as Asher outlines, appears not to be “annexation” but the restoration of law and order and the exposure of corruption.

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BC Fentanyl Ring ‘Negotiated’ With Sinaloa Chief ‘El Mayo,’ Court Filings Allege

Published on March 12, 2025

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A new high-profile British Columbia money laundering case targets an alleged Sinaloa Cartel–linked fentanyl and cocaine trafficking cell established in a mansion near the U.S. border. Court filings say the group was capable of negotiating significant cocaine importation deals with Ismael Garcia—known as “El Mayo”—the reputed Sinaloa Cartel chief.

According to the filings, the Canada-based syndicate comprised at least three men, including Hector Chavez-Anchondo. The lawsuit, filed yesterday by the Director of Civil Forfeiture, contends that they belonged to a violent drug trafficking organization that “used and continues to use violence, or threats of violence, to achieve its aims.”

Investigators allege that the Sinaloa Cartel-linked gang trafficked a range of controlled substances, including ketamine, methamphetamine, Xanax, oxycodone, MDMA, and fentanyl.

“As part of these efforts, the drug trafficking organization has agreed to, and made arrangements to, purchase cocaine from the Cártel de Sinaloa in Mexico,” the filings say. They add that “the Sinaloa Cartel is a terrorist entity, and the government of Canada listed it as such on February 20, 2025.”

Though no criminal convictions have been reported in connection with this lawsuit—first covered by the Vancouver Sun—Canada’s designation of the Sinaloa Cartel as a terrorist organization could have significant ramifications for high-level discussions between the Trump Administration and Ottawa. Washington has intensified pressure on Canada over alleged failures to curb fentanyl trafficking networks, with the dispute escalating into sweeping tariffs amid a mounting trade war.

According to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, members of the Surrey-based fentanyl and cocaine trafficking network had the clout to negotiate cocaine supply terms directly with García until his arrest by U.S. law enforcement on July 25, 2024. Court filings state that his capture “disrupted the DTO’s efforts to import and distribute cocaine in Canada,” forcing the group to pivot and initiate “negotiations with other parties, known only to the DTO members.”

RCMP investigators say they uncovered a substantial cache of weapons and narcotics during a search of a Surrey property on 77th Avenue on September 23, 2024. The multi-million-dollar mansion is located about 20 minutes from the Peace Arch border crossing in Washington State, north of Seattle.

Court submissions detail the following seized items:

Firearms: Twenty-three weapons, including ten handguns, two sawed-off shotguns, two hunting rifles, seven assault rifles (two reportedly equipped with screw-on sound suppressors), and a speargun.
Drugs: Approximately 3.5 kilograms of ketamine and methamphetamine concealed in a hidden compartment in one suspect’s room, hundreds of counterfeit alprazolam pills, and a hidden stash of oxycodone pills.
Currency: Nearly CAD 15,000 in cash, bundled “not consistent with standard banking practices.”

Authorities also confiscated numerous luxury assets, asserting these represented either instruments or proceeds of unlawful activity. In a filing submitted today, a lawyer for the Director of Asset Seizure wrote:

“There is a triable question as to whether the Vehicles, the Motorcycles, the Azure Boat, the Trailer, the Money, the Jewellery, and other Valuables and Electronic Devices are either instruments or proceeds of unlawful activity. Drug trafficking is a cash business. Persons involved in illegal drug activity frequently carry large sums of cash, either to purchase drugs or as proceeds from drug sales. Currency itself can be an instrument of unlawful activity, facilitating further drug transactions.”

Seized vehicles included a 2006 GMC Sierra, a 2002 Ford F350, a 2006 Land Rover, a 2018 Dodge Ram 1500 Sport, a 2006 Dodge Charger R/T, and a restored 1950 vintage Ford. Investigators also confiscated upscale motorcycles, such as a 2012 Harley Davidson and custom bikes featuring elaborate flame motifs. An Azure AZ238 boat, along with its Shoreland’r trailer, was taken as well.

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Chinese Narco Suspect Caught in Private Meeting with Trudeau, Investigated by DEA, Linked to Panama, Caribbean, Mexico – Police Sources

Published on March 11, 2025

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Shocking new details are emerging about a major Chinese organized crime suspect who met privately with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, according to a police source who confirmed recent reporting from The Globe and Mail. The individual, Paul King Jin, is allegedly implicated in money laundering operations spanning the Western Hemisphere and has been a target of multiple failed major investigations in British Columbia. These investigations sought to unravel the complex interrelations of underground casinos and real estate investment, fentanyl and methamphetamine trafficking, and financial crimes that allegedly funnel drug proceeds from diaspora community underground banks throughout North America and Latin America, with connections to Chinese and Hong Kong financial institutions.

The failed investigations into Jin have involved both the RCMP and U.S. agencies. These operations stretch from Vancouver to Mexico, Panama, and beyond, multiple sources confirm.

Repeated efforts to reach Jin for comment through his lawyer in the British Columbia Cullen Commission, which stemmed from investigative journalism exposing BC casino money laundering, have not been successful. Recent BC civil forfeiture filings seeking to seize alleged money laundering proceeds from Jin, with cases connecting 14 Vancouver homes to entities in Hong Kong and China, also indicate Jin has not been responsive through a lawyer.

Highlighting longstanding U.S. government concerns over the B.C. investigations and suspects like Jin, Mayor Brad West confirmed in exclusive interviews with The Bureau that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed dismay over Canada’s failure to successfully prosecute Jin and Chinese crime networks, specifically citing the collapse of the E-Pirate investigation. Reportedly Canada’s largest-ever probe into money laundering, E-Pirate fell apart in court after cooperating witnesses were exposed. One of the Chinese Triad narcotics traffickers targeted in E-Pirate surveillance, Richard Yen Fat Chiu, was found stabbed and burned to death near the Venezuelan border on June 20, 2019, according to Colombian news reports.

The Bureau has verified with a source possessing direct knowledge of Canadian policing failures that crucial intelligence regarding Sam Gor—a massive transnational crime syndicate—was provided to the RCMP by U.S. agencies yet failed to result in prosecutions.

One primary source confirmed a new detail reported by The Globe and Mail: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was entangled in an RCMP surveillance operation that targeted Paul Jin and the Sam Gor networks in Richmond, British Columbia. The Globe reported that early in his tenure, Trudeau met with Jin at a closed-door gathering at the Executive Inn Express Richmond, near Vancouver International Airport. Three sources corroborated the meeting according to The Globe, which took place between late 2015 and early 2017. Also present at the meeting was a Chinese army veteran with close ties to Beijing. The Globe noted that the veteran had attended social events with Chinese diplomats, reinforcing concerns about political and security risks posed by these associations.

The Bureau’s police source, who is independent of The Globe’s sources, confirmed they were aware of the RCMP surveillance operation that placed Trudeau, Jin, and the Chinese army veteran together in a private meeting.

Meanwhile, Jin himself has been surveilled in meetings with Chinese police officers who have traveled to Richmond, according to a separate police source with extensive knowledge of Chinese organized crime and influence operations in Canada. Two sources further stated that Jin continues to operate underground casino networks in Richmond, where law enforcement intelligence believes he has erected a mansion using front owners. Membership at this establishment is reportedly set at $100,000 for high-rollers.

According to a criminal intelligence source, Jin has alleged ties to China’s Ministry of Public Security and the network of clandestine Chinese police stations in British Columbia investigated by the RCMP. Two sources confirmed that Jin has allegedly acquired a new luxury mansion in Richmond, registered under a nominee—an established organized crime tactic.

“Jin uses one of his flunkies as a nominee for it. Common practice,” the source said. They further alleged that one of Jin’s associates tied to the mansion was implicated with Jin in a significant 2009 methamphetamine investigation. “Again, the use of nominees for real estate and businesses. Organized crime 101.”

Jin’s activities extend well beyond Canada, two sources alleged.

“He’s spending a lot of time in Latin America and the Caribbean,” a source said. “Asian organized crime is running amok. Foreign actor interference is getting really established. How it works is the current government welcoming any contributions from the motherland. What does this have to do with Asian organized crime in Canada? There’s a trade connection now from those areas in Latin America and the Caribbean to Canadian Asian organized crime commodity trades, primarily via the Maritimes.”

Jin has also been linked to international criminal networks, with two sources indicating that he and other high-level Canadian Triad associates have been traveling extensively to Panama and other Latin American jurisdictions. These movements align with intelligence connecting Canadian Triads to Mexican cartel operatives, facilitating narcotics trafficking, money laundering, and commodity smuggling into the United States.

Panama, which Trump administration State Secretary Marco Rubio has flagged as a hub of Chinese crime and state influence, has emerged as a focal point for Jin’s operations. “Jin was spending an awful lot more time down in Panama, where we think he is putting a lot of his capital there,” a source familiar with North American law enforcement investigations said. “They have the same kind of problem going on in Panama City as Vancouver, with all of the condo towers, and they’re empty. So people are plowing money into that place too.”

Adding to the concerns, a source disclosed that Jin’s travels to Panama raised red flags within international law enforcement circles. Jin flew from Vancouver to Toronto, then to Mexico City, Colombia, and finally Panama. Upon arrival, Panamanian customs flagged discrepancies in his travel documents, detecting an alternate identity. He was deemed inadmissible and promptly deported along the same route back to Canada.

“They said, ‘No, you’re inadmissible. Something’s wrong here. You’re traveling under this name, but we have you here as another person.’ So Panama punted him and sent him back exactly the same route, and we caught wind of this because of the liaison office down in Bogota,” the source, who could not be identified due to sensitivities in Canada, said. “And they let us know, and locally, the CBSA guys let the Toronto guys know because that’s where he would clear Canada Customs coming back. So they were like, ‘Okay, this is worthy of an interview.’ And they put a flag in the system and everything else.

“To make a long story short, it all fell flat. Nobody interviewed him. He just came right back—came right back to his place here in Vancouver. And so it just shows you the brokenness of our own system, that we can’t even get a key guy like that consistently checked and stopped, and he’s traveling under false papers.”

Jin’s expanding influence in Panama is a significant development aligning with Trump administration concerns, the source said, underscoring broader fears about China’s growing criminal and political footprint in the Western Hemisphere.

The Bureau previously reported that the latest BC civil forfeiture case—the fourth against Jin in three years—suggests he is actively evading British Columbia court procedures. Court filings state that after being banned from British Columbia casinos, Paul King Jin shifted his operations to illegal gaming houses, generating over $32 million in just four months in 2015. These underground casinos became a crucial node in a cash-based network fueling the proliferation of synthetic drugs across North America.

The case intensified in November 2022 when Everwell Knight Limited, a Hong Kong-registered entity holding mortgages on 14 disputed properties linked to Jin, sought to dismiss the government’s forfeiture claim on procedural grounds. Everwell’s legal team invoked the Canadian Charter of Rights—an increasingly common legal strategy in Canadian money laundering cases—arguing that the Director of Civil Forfeiture had failed to meet procedural requirements.

In April 2023, the Director of Civil Forfeiture responded with a default judgment application, contending that Jin’s failure to file a defense effectively conceded key allegations. The case also underscored Jin’s pattern of evasion, with the Director’s counsel noting that an unnamed lawyer initially suggested they might represent Jin but then ceased communication, leaving his legal status unresolved.

Regarding another key Sam Gor associate, E-Pirate target Richard Chiu—the Vancouver-area drug kingpin found burned and stabbed in 2019 near Cúcuta, a city close to the Colombian border with Venezuela—Chiu had previously been convicted in Massachusetts in 2002 for conspiracy to distribute and possess heroin.

According to B.C. Supreme Court documents, Chiu was the subject of multiple Vancouver police drug investigations. In 2017, during one such probe, authorities surveilled an Audi Q7 leased to him. Civil forfeiture filings state that police observed Chiu’s wife, Kimberly Chiu, exiting the vehicle while a “known gang associate” placed a heavy bag into the trunk.

Kimberly Chiu later became the subject of a civil forfeiture case after police seized $317,000 from the Audi—most of it packed in vacuum-sealed bundles inside a duffel bag. However, unlike other suspects, Richard Chiu was never criminally charged in Canada or directly sued by the director of civil forfeiture.

The government’s statement of claim alleged that Kimberly Chiu was “acting as a courier for Asian organized crime,” a claim she denied. In her defense, she argued that Vancouver police had no lawful grounds to detain or search her.

The collapse of E-Pirate and related Canadian law enforcement failures prompted then-B.C. Attorney General David Eby to launch a review, but it led to no legal reforms or policy changes in the province.