Pull Up a Chair Kids, Tammy's Got Stories About Drug-Running
Spoiler alert: we're not talking about the white hot market between Estevan and Minot.
I am not an expert in the international drug trade.
You don’t have to be in order to recognize the insanity of Scott Moe’s assertion that Canadians should use our country’s military to control fentanyl moving… south.
“What we're seeing in early conversations is the Mexican government, by placing their troops alongside the border to stop the flow of not only fentanyl but illegal migrants… I would say that if they brought that in under the military, we could have our military present there as well.” - Scott Moe in a news conference, February 3, 2025
He wants Canada to do what, because who did what?
The fucking fuck is wrong with this clown?
In an increasingly hysterical news conference held on Monday afternoon in Saskatoon’s government cabinet office, purportedly to respond to Trump Tariff Terrorism, Moe lied with aplomb.
“…the availability of drugs, specifically fentanyl, in our North American communities has also been identified as a challenge by the Trump administration. We've taken action in this space in our province.” - Scott Moe, same news conference
Really, Scott?
Do you mean trying to kill all the addicts you possibly can before you finally, blessedly fuck off?
Because if not, please do tell what we’ve done in this “space”, Scooter, to address the “availability” of fentanyl… in this space.
Let’s be clear: there is no river of fentanyl crossing the Saskatchewan border into North Dakota or Montana.
In 2024, just 0.2% of the fentanyl seized by the US was on its Canadian border.
Not the Saskatchewan border, or the “49th parallel”, as Moe called it at least a dozen times, because he’s fancy like that.
0.2 percent along the entire 9000 kilometre stretch of Canadian-US, or US Northern border.
Put another way, 96.5% of the fentanyl seized on a US border was on its border with Mexico.
96.5 percent through Mexico, yet Scott Moe went on national television to opine that Canada too should dispatch its military over 0.2 percent.
The US Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA’s) 2024 National Drug Threat Assessment report doesn’t reference the word “Canada”, but mentions Mexico almost a hundred times.
Trump is lying about the Canadian border and illegal migration, the size of the trade deficit and even our defense spending - Canada is the eighth highest spender of 31 NATO countries.
What Trump did by unilaterally applying tariffs to other countries should have required an “emergency” order from his White House office, so he latched onto fentanyl as an excuse. This is widely seen by anyone with half a brain and even just one eye as nothing more than fictional legal pretext so Trump can bypass the US congress.
It’s the behaviour of a dictator and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe not only recognizes and respects it - he loves it.
If Trump demanded Scott Moe call him “Daddy”, Moe would not only do it, he’d disown his own for good measure.
Anyway.
Listening to Moe talk, on a good day, is bad enough. Listening to him babble about the drug trade is hilarious.
A few years back, wholly and completely fed up with my life in Saskatchewan, I moved to the Caribbean. Specifically, the tiny Latin American country of Belize.
I’ve travelled the Caribbean and mainland Latin America extensively. I was in Belize at least a dozen times before moving there. I was well aware there were drugs around.
For the record, marijuana is the only drug I’ve ever used or ever will.
I’ve never tried any hard drugs, or anything at all besides weed, but obviously I knew about their presence when I moved to Belize, just like I knew about their presence in Saskatchewan.
However once you live in a major drug-running corridor, your education on the open, blatant drug trade expands exponentially.
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