It’s true, incoming American president Donald J. Trump declared war on Canada over claims of illegals and drugs streaming across the norther border of the United States.
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And it’s also true that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau didn’t see that attack coming.
“On Jan. 20, as one of my many first Executive Orders, I will sign all necessary documents to charge Mexico and Canada a 25% tariff on all products coming into the United States, and its ridiculous open borders,” the soon-to-be 47th president wrote on social media.
“Thousands of people are pouring through Mexico and Canada, bringing crime and drugs at levels never seen before,” he added.
But what he didn’t say and what Trudeau has so far failed to mention is there’s a lot of bad stuff America is “bringing” over that porous border into Canada, as well.
The export of murder.
“Toronto Police Service has seized 659 crime guns so far in 2024,” said spokesperson Stephanie Sayer.
Guess how many of those were smuggled in from America?
“Of the crime guns seized this year that have been successfully sourced, 84% came from the United States,” said Sayer.
Oops.
Trump, like they did in South Park, can ‘blame Canada’ all he wants. But contraband gun running into Canada is a crisis that should be addressed in any upcoming trade talks designed to avoid the imposition of tariffs.
This is just not a Toronto problem. There are smuggled U.S. guns in the hands of many criminals in Durham, York, Peel and Halton Regions, too.
The weapons come across hidden in cars, or by other means, and as result, Canadians are murdered.
Gabriel Brunet, a spokesperson for federal Public Safety Minister Domenic LeBlanc, told the Sun that “in 2023-2024, the CBSA seized more than 27,000 prohibited weapons, and almost 900 firearms” at the border and have “codified a freeze on the sale, transfer and importation of handguns; gave law enforcement more resources to crack down on ghost guns; and increased criminal sentences for gun traffickers.”
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In Toronto alone this year, there have been more than 420 shootings and 40 people killed by gunfire — mostly with American iron.
Earlier this month, there was a wild shootout in which two police officers had to duck inside their car as bullets pierced the windows and frame. When the bullets stopped and the smoke settled, they arrested a gaggle of people and confiscated 16 firearms.
Toronto Sun photographer Ernest Doroszuk shot images of the guns being brought out in evidence boxes and said there were so many that forensic officers have to make several trips.
“Perhaps the most telling part of this incident is the proliferation of guns and the young people who carry them,” Deputy Chief Rob Johnson said on that day.
Chief Myron Demkiw said his officers are seizing guns from cars every week, which means those confiscated can’t hurt anybody anymore.
But he worries about the thousands of firearms his officers have not yet seized and who could be harmed or killed by those ready to use them.
He should worry since he knows more are coming in every day. In that music studio party incident, every gun fired had been brought in illegally from the United States.
“For the last three years, the top source states for crime guns seized by TPS have included Georgia, Ohio, Florida and Texas,” said Sayer.
How about a tariff or charges for any American who sells guns to criminals or trafficks what might be legal products south of the border here in Canada.
There should be some ramification for it.
There should certainly be no whining or complaining about Trump’s negotiating stance, as I heard Tuesday.
He plays hardball. It’s also not lost on people who understand the situation that this came just days after Trudeau saying he would “abide” by the International Criminal Court’s warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham warned Canada, and it’s other allies, “we will crush your economy” if they assisted in arresting Netanyahu.
This also follows the TD Bank pleading guilty in the United States in a money laundering case, resulting in almost $2-billion in fines and forfeitures.
There are bad relations between Canada and the United States. But it is not all one way.
When we have a mom struck by a stray bullet like what happened in 2023 to Karolina Huebner-Makurat or 12-year-old Dante Andreatta Marroquin in 2021, it’s thanks to some criminal illegally bringing a firearm to Canada from the United States.
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Guess how many of those were smuggled in from America?
“Of the crime guns seized this year that have been successfully sourced, 84% came from the United States,” said Sayer.
Oops.
Trump, like they did in South Park, can ‘blame Canada’ all he wants. But contraband gun running into Canada is a crisis that should be addressed in any upcoming trade talks designed to avoid the imposition of tariffs.
This is just not a Toronto problem. There are smuggled U.S. guns in the hands of many criminals in Durham, York, Peel and Halton Regions, too.
The weapons come across hidden in cars, or by other means, and as result, Canadians are murdered.
Gabriel Brunet, a spokesperson for federal Public Safety Minister Domenic LeBlanc, told the Sun that “in 2023-2024, the CBSA seized more than 27,000 prohibited weapons, and almost 900 firearms” at the border and have “codified a freeze on the sale, transfer and importation of handguns; gave law enforcement more resources to crack down on ghost guns; and increased criminal sentences for gun traffickers.”
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In Toronto alone this year, there have been more than 420 shootings and 40 people killed by gunfire — mostly with American iron.
Earlier this month, there was a wild shootout in which two police officers had to duck inside their car as bullets pierced the windows and frame. When the bullets stopped and the smoke settled, they arrested a gaggle of people and confiscated 16 firearms.
Toronto Sun photographer Ernest Doroszuk shot images of the guns being brought out in evidence boxes and said there were so many that forensic officers have to make several trips.
“Perhaps the most telling part of this incident is the proliferation of guns and the young people who carry them,” Deputy Chief Rob Johnson said on that day.
Chief Myron Demkiw said his officers are seizing guns from cars every week, which means those confiscated can’t hurt anybody anymore.
But he worries about the thousands of firearms his officers have not yet seized and who could be harmed or killed by those ready to use them.
He should worry since he knows more are coming in every day. In that music studio party incident, every gun fired had been brought in illegally from the United States.
“For the last three years, the top source states for crime guns seized by TPS have included Georgia, Ohio, Florida and Texas,” said Sayer.
How about a tariff or charges for any American who sells guns to criminals or trafficks what might be legal products south of the border here in Canada.
There should be some ramification for it.
There should certainly be no whining or complaining about Trump’s negotiating stance, as I heard Tuesday.
He plays hardball. It’s also not lost on people who understand the situation that this came just days after Trudeau saying he would “abide” by the International Criminal Court’s warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham warned Canada, and it’s other allies, “we will crush your economy” if they assisted in arresting Netanyahu.
This also follows the TD Bank pleading guilty in the United States in a money laundering case, resulting in almost $2-billion in fines and forfeitures.
There are bad relations between Canada and the United States. But it is not all one way.
When we have a mom struck by a stray bullet like what happened in 2023 to Karolina Huebner-Makurat or 12-year-old Dante Andreatta Marroquin in 2021, it’s thanks to some criminal illegally bringing a firearm to Canada from the United States.
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