CANADA VANCOUVER PORT – MEXICAN TRAFFICKING TRANSFER STATION?
Inside China’s New Fentanyl Pipeline: From Mazatlán Through Vancouver to Los Angeles
U.S. officials believe Canada’s prime minister has minimized Canada’s role in global fentanyl markets as China shifts precursor and pill flows from Mexico.
BRITISH COLUMBIA — Chinese and Mexican cartel networks have increasingly routed container shipments of fentanyl pills and precursor chemicals through Vancouver as a production and export hub into the western United States and Asia-Pacific markets, a Trump-administration source has alleged, adding that U.S. officials believe Prime Minister Mark Carney has downplayed Canada’s role in fentanyl markets in meetings with senior State Department officials.
A U.S. investigator involved in global fentanyl investigations contacted The Bureau with these claims, citing details of recent seizures that, in their view, point to cartels exploiting Vancouver’s port as a convenient transshipment hub—moving narcotics globally under the cover of Canada’s trusted trade status.
“We are seeing containers going north from Mexico, from the port of Mazatlán, full of fentanyl pills going up to Vancouver and then being shipped down to western ports in the U.S. to make it look like the containers originated in Canada, to spoof our customs inspections,” the U.S. government source informed The Bureau, noting that Ottawa was receiving this sort of information from multiple U.S. sources, in addition to the FBI and Director Kash Patel.
What differentiates these claims from earlier statements by Kash Patel—who said in June that Mexican and Chinese gangs were shifting fentanyl production operations into Canada—is that the senior U.S. investigator interviewed by The Bureau pointed to ongoing probes tied to seizures that did not occur at Canada’s northern border, and to specific intelligence reporting informing those investigations.
Link to substack – https://www.thebureau.news/p/inside-chinas-new-fentanyl-pipeline
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“Another thing is we’re seeing fentanyl precursors going into Vancouver on a very large scale,” the U.S. global fentanyl investigation source added. “Sometimes they stop in Mexico and then get shipped north; a lot of times they just go straight from China.”
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— Shareaware Canada (@ShareawareCdn) March 21, 2026
