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I agree with what you're saying, but it's hard to find and measure something if nobody is looking. During the firearms & car theft scandal the cbsa said they were stopping like a single digit percentage of trucks and zero percent of freight cars due to funding. IDK about the ports specifically but I would imagine the same applies.idk but if you have a better way of measuring it go for it
I would assume that pre-cursors are the big deal and they are flowing in freely. The US market is very lucrative. Smuggler's expect to lose 9 out of 10 shipments, and that rate improves significantly across the US/Canada border. On darknet markets, items within North America were sold at a higher price because they were much more likely to arrive without any hassle. Sellers would advertise in the title "Shipping From Canada".
If pre-cursors are freely available in Canada, it makes it much more profitable than shipping a finished product from a lawless country. Packages under 30 grams receive less scrutiny, and 30 grams of pure fentanyl is a hell of a lot of fentanyl. IDK the exact numbers, but fentanyl on the street is probably like 1 part pure, to 500 buffer. Often, pure fentanyl seized at the border, is conflated with adulterated fentanyl, seized at street level.
I'm just trying to point out that the situation is more complex than what is being portrayed in the media.
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