Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Andrea Woo
Publication Date: June 6, 2025 - 06:00
Fentanyl czar focused on combatting opioid trade, despite tariff distraction
June 6, 2025
Canada’s fentanyl czar says he is “singularly focused” on disrupting the flow of the synthetic opioid, regardless of U.S. efforts to weaponize trade policy over debunked claims that it is pouring south across the border.In a wide-ranging interview with The Globe and Mail, Kevin Brosseau said evidence shows that Canada is not the provenance of the illicit fentanyl being seized stateside – despite President Donald Trump using that as a basis to justify some of his tariffs.
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