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NEWS: Kevin Brosseau named as Canada’s new ‘fentanyl czar’

Premium February 12, 2025

Kevin Brosseau, newly announced as Canada's "Fentanyl Czar", and a former deputy commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) who most recently was Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's deputy national security and intelligence advisor, poses in an undated photograph in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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By David Ljunggren

CANADA, fulfilling a promise made to U.S. President Donald Trump, appointed senior intelligence official Kevin Brosseau to the new post of fentanyl czar, saying he would coordinate the fight against smuggling of the drug.

Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on all imports from Canada unless the government does more to stop the flow of fentanyl across the border.

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NEWS: Kuwait pension fund’s $1 billion corruption lawsuit begins in UK court

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