Fentanyl czar needs to focus beyond the border to tackle epidemic, experts say

If Ottawa is serious about helping its new fentanyl czar defeat a scourge that has killed tens of thousands of Canadians, it will require a lot more than helicopters and extra cameras at the border, former drug investigators and RCMP commanders say.Law enforcement experts told The Globe and Mail they’re hopeful the threat of U.S. tariffs may be the crisis that finally forces Canada to make substantive changes to the way the trafficking of fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid, is investigated and prosecuted.