just busted 3 fentanyl labs in 2 days. All well equipped, industrial scale facilities within a short-drive of each other in BC. All to produce the fentanyl totally doesn’t have. Tragically I’m not your fentanyl czar, but here’s what I’d notice if I were. <thread>

2/ this is a fun photo. Nothing brown is used to synth fentanyl. Precursors are clear or white. But aniline, an essential manufacturing chem, is light brown & darkens as it oxidizes. Only problem is aniline isn’t used in fentanyl production. wtf, eh?

3/ However, aniline is used to make fentanyl precursors. RCMP said 2 of 3 labs in the fentanyl bust were manufacturing fentanyl. What was the 3rd? I’m not a fishing license expert like ’s newly appointed fentanyl czar, but it sure looks like a precursor lab.

4/ But that can’t be! doesn’t have any fentanyl. That means it definitely doesn’t have the dozens of industrial scale labs that were busted over the past few months. It definitely doesn’t have precursor labs. That’s preposterous! Something, something, China! Mexico!

4/ anyway, if you’re new here—I’m being sarcastic. I’ve been arguing w/’s gov about fentanyl proceeds laundered through our banks & housing for like a decade. is the command & control center of the global fentanyl trade. Ignoring it just b/c Trump said it, is reckless to us

6/ Seriously, you have no idea ho bad ’s fentanyl problem is. You know how is now the global center of money laundering? That’s smaller than ’s fentanyl trade.

7/ also the RCMP is cracking down in BC & the Province is helping. Ontario is the where the actual control center is located, and they aren’t doing a thing because it’s bad for business. In fact, mention how many busts are related to ON + ON folks scream it’s a lie.

8/ ’s gov told you it has no fentanyl, & definitely doesn’t export. … just a few weeks after ’s intel wrote in a report that it has an extensive fentanyl industry that exports. ’s Schrödinger Fentanyl problem. It’s a crisis & doesn’t exist all the same time.

9/ surely if had a drug & money laundering problem, it would have more crime stats! Nope, because MOST criminal charges in places like Ontario are dropped. No day in court, no crime. Case closed!

10/ great time to traffic fentanyl though. It looks like is dropping fentanyl trafficking charges to avoid any official statistics on conviction. Probably also a great time to go long on fentanyl treatment centers. Hamilton recently lined the streets with them.

11/ remember the time firefighters accidentally stumbled in a stash of fentanyl large enough to wipe out Toronto? Weird how he person lived w/the brother of the Danforth shooter—who totally wasn’t a terrorist. Just a lonely guy who shot people at random. Oh that reminds me…

12/ doesn’t have murders but a lot of folks overdose. In fact, a lot are OD-ing with no known drug history. Randomly. Weird. Anyway, hot shotting is when a person kills another by overdosing them unwittingly. A mom in B.C. fought to find that out from the gov.

13/ I should wrap up, but I’ll leave you with this. Think it’s going to change? I asked Carney’s team if they had a plan to address fentanyl, and they unfollowed me. Team Fentanyl is now PM. So good luck kids, this problem is going to get a lot worse real fast.