Opioids have killed about 49,000 Canadians since 2016.
One gram of powder fentanyl can fetch up to $C240 ($267) on the street.
Canadian fentanyl that arrives in the US tends to be sold on the dark web and shipped through the mail.
Toronto | Canada’s last-minute reprieve from crushing US tariffs came after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveiled a series of measures aimed at controlling the trafficking of fentanyl, a key reason President Donald Trump has cited for wanting to impose levies.
Fentanyl has flooded North America’s drug supply over the past decade, killing tens of thousands in Canada and the United States, and generating enormous profits for criminal organisations using basic chemistry skills, improvised equipment and home laboratories to produce millions of doses.
