Canada Names Senior Cop as ‘Fentanyl Czar’ in Border Security Crackdown
Roxham Road at the Canada-US border in St-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec, Canada.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tapped Kevin Brosseau, a former deputy commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, as the country’s lead person on fighting fentanyl trafficking.
Brosseau, who has recently served as Trudeau’s deputy national security and intelligence adviser, “will work closely with US counterparts and law enforcement agencies to accelerate Canada’s ongoing work to detect, disrupt, and dismantle the fentanyl trade,” the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement Tuesday. The new role is effective immediately.