As for whether the cartels are already operating here apparently they are and its some of the most dangerous ones and they undoubtedly have labs in BC as we are the closest area to their precursers point of entry.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11027146/canada-cartels-terrorist-entities/
Sinaloa Cartel, Tren de Aragua and MS 13, three of the most dangerous ones are listed. But OK...pretend its not an issue Rlock. For whatever reason we either lack the ability or desire to control and enforce our drug laws and I am putting that on the Trudeau Liberals and David Eby because its under their reigns of power that the largest increases in the number of drug labs have occurred.
Don't get it into your head that there is denial of the problem. Hard drugs is an undeniable issue, but I do not take the hysterics of foreign MAGA hypocrites at face value, milking the issue and falsifying it to serve some other malign purpose.
What you do not seem to understand is that it is all a ruse; the guys you worship are profiting from the drug trade, laundering their money and excaping that escape detection; they are also the "2A" assholes crying about the freedom for anyone to own any weapon they desire, as if this "outlaw mentality" is not also what feeds arms to organized crime.
In any case, the police can actually handle the problem in Canada; they know who most of the players are already. It is the courts that utterly fail. The legal system simply does not allow them to use the tools they have to full effect, because the system clings to the idea of giving benefit of the doubt at all times, forgiving offenses as some sort of default setting, against which it is very hard for police and prosecutors to make any headway.
Border security has little to do with it. You can double the guards and double them again, and it still makes no difference if nobody is getting punished nor even detained for trial in proper accordance with their history of criminality. They get caught, they get out, they get right back to it. In the meantime, the authorities have very little power to actually attack and destroy the crime networks these crooks belong to; rules regarding surveillance, evidence, and so on all get in the way.
There's like 100 legal reforms that could be made, and not just about fentanyl but crime in general. If you want to really crack down on every criminal gang, you attack their supply of weapons, you attack their flows of money, and you change the legal system to no longer default to being naive (taking the defendant's excuses at face value unless proven otherwise).
First order of business would be to reset the notion of "rights" to not weigh so heavily in favour in individual liberty, at the expense of harms to everyone else. Basically, the same "freedumbs" that those convoy assholes scream about preserving are the ones which allow criminal gangs to thrive, this American "pious outlaw" fake shit they try to sell to people here. That has got to change, ridding Canada of the "serve myself above all, fuck everyone else" libertarian ideology flowing out of the USA.
The best-case scenario here in Canada is that the right kind of legal reforms (not gimmicks) get enacted over time, and society turns its back on all the hypocrisy that led to this situation in the first place. Then the criminal groups can be de-fanged by even stronger controls over weapons than on drugs,harsh but consistent punishment of those who commit crimes against the people (drug dealing included) becomes the new Canadian standard, and soon even the top crooks will fear the government; they will lose any pretense of social dominance over honest people, and the streets will actually get safer because we have an actual justice system - not a legal system willed with giant loopholes designed to let major crooks slip through along with elite members of society who just don't like following rules.
Just fucken give them the death penalty. Hard drugs are harmful to society in general. Those who profit and distribute hard drugs should be killed. Look at Mexico, the people are scared to death of these villians/criminals. Pretty sure there is no reforming them.
As for people ODing on hard drugs. Give them 3 chances and after that just let them OD. That gets rid of the customer base. 3 strikes and your out for life....
Easy to say, but how would a paramedic or doctor even know that about them? Teach time they tattoo the letters "OD" "ODx2" ODx3" on their foreheads ?
It sounds nice, but the addicts dropping dead has never stopped the dealers from going out and finding fresh new people to enslave.
Death penalty also sounds great if you do not look at the details, but if you tacked it on to the legal system we have now, it would be a disaster - both ineffective (taking ages and costing millions for each case) and unjust (killing a large number of innocent people while letting just as many guilty ones go).
The other sorts of legal reforms that are needed would have to be done first, before it is even considered. And if those reforms were made, then it might not be needed.
I am no pacifist - some people definitely deserve to die, and I see the value in bumping off dealers who are quite literally killing people for a profit.
Easy to take them out, just kill them.
But some bleeding liberal heart will complain you violated their rights.... the right to life, the right to make money tax free, the right to kill rivals in the street with handguns and machine guns, the right to kill anyone in their way of making money.... and so on....
The bad part is when some whacked out drug addict get whacked by the police..... A drug addict who has violated many peoples rights by robbing the general public. The drug addict who steals from their family and friends.
Okay, simple way to achieve this: No more "bleeding heart" gun rights bullshit.
Soldiers have a need for a gun. Cops have a need for a gun. Maybe armoured car guards and so on. As for hunters. If they claim they need to go hunting, they better have a simple hunting weapon, and it has to be registered and tracked at all times.
Anyone caught with an unregistered firearm, or any illegally modified hunting firearm, or any restricted type they have no work-related reason to possess, or any civilian caught prohibited type at all,
gets executed. Any convicted criminal (who cannot be a licensed gun user at all) caught with a firearm = execution. Anyone illegally smuggling any firearm into Canada, or selling or trading it inside Canada without proper authorization = execution. Use of a firearm (any firearm) in another crime = execution.
Possession of a firearm without a clear & provable legal need to own one means you are up to no good, keeping weapons for some sort of criminal or terrorist intentions, so you get put to death.
Anyone who cannot abide by those terms of Canadians laws and values should just move to the USA. If they try to defy it or fight it here, that goes back to having a "criminal or terrorist purpose" - in this case, treason (imposing America's constitution upon Canada's sovereign territory), therefore also execution.
Easy to just take them out - and it is not like criminals have some inherent right to possess the means to fight back.