You talk of the problem with the Mexico drug cartels...
Thats is an issue but I think a greater issues and something that is more important to Canadians is the drug cartels coming to the north.
"CBC- Kamloops "Dozens of homes and businesses in Kamloops, B.C., have been evacuated as police investigate three suspicious objects found near a downtown building on Saturday morning.
Mounties have found what they call three "items of concern" near the Scotiabank building at 3rd Avenue and Victoria Street — one of which is believed to be leaning against a natural gas meter. RCMP Const. Rose Dunsmore said the RCMP's bomb squad is flying to Kamloops from the Lower Mainland to assist in the investigation. Dunsmore said police have cordoned off and evacuated a three-block radius, from 1st Avenue to 3rd avenue and Landsdowne to Seymour streets. "We do have Terasen [a natural gas distributor in B.C.] gas [officials] on scene as well. They have managed to shut off gas to that particular building and we're still looking at making sure that area stays clear of any kind of public individuals here," she said.
"We want to make sure everyone just stays out of that area in the interest of public safety."
The general public is advised to avoid the area until police determine whether any of the packages pose a threat. Dunsmore said one long, closed-off pipe was found leaning against the building's gas meter. In the immediate vicinity, police also found a case with wires coming out of it and another carrying case. Kamloops is in B.C.'s southern Interior, about 250 kilometres northeast of Vancouver."
Another article on cartels coming north
"Already this year in the Vancouver area – nicknamed the gang capital of Canada – there have been 30 shootings (with 12 fatalities) directly linked to the gang shakeout in Mexico and tracked by the Washington-based Council on Hemispheric Affairs. Some 130 gangs operate in B.C., among them Red Scorpions, United Nations, MS-13, Bacon Brothers, Hells Angels and various independents – all with ties of varying degrees to lucrative Mexican cocaine, among other drugs from other places. "Vancouver and British Columbia are unfortunately the focus of the largest number of organized crime groups in Canada," warned Peter Van Loan, federal public safety minister and solicitor-general, in a speech in Langley this year. A few days earlier, a gangster died nearby in a Mexican-style execution by machine-gun fire at the Thunderbird Village Mall.
In Mexico, where nearly 11,000 have died since Mexican President Felipe Calderón launched his government's "war on drugs" in 2006, drug-fuelled gangs impale heads on stakes and dissolve thousands of corpses in acid.
In Tijuana, a border town almost due south down the I-5 from Vancouver, there are three, maybe four drug murders a day and cartel henchmen take down local cops for sport.
In Vancouver, police are witnessing an escalation in the brutality of killings. Recently, in an apparently targeted hit, a gangster shot a young mother in her car as her 4-year-old sat in the back seat. Once, such actions were forbidden by established drug protocol. Now, collateral damage is routine in the slaughterhouse of gangland hits." Already this year in the Vancouver area – nicknamed the gang capital of Canada – there have been 30 shootings (with 12 fatalities) directly linked to the gang shakeout in Mexico and tracked by the Washington-based Council on Hemispheric Affairs. Some 130 gangs operate in B.C., among them Red Scorpions, United Nations, MS-13, Bacon Brothers, Hells Angels and various independents – all with ties of varying degrees to lucrative Mexican cocaine, among other drugs from other places. "Vancouver and British Columbia are unfortunately the focus of the largest number of organized crime groups in Canada," warned Peter Van Loan, federal public safety minister and solicitor-general, in a speech in Langley this year. A few days earlier, a gangster died nearby in a Mexican-style execution by machine-gun fire at the Thunderbird Village Mall.
In Mexico, where nearly 11,000 have died since Mexican President Felipe Calderón launched his government's "war on drugs" in 2006, drug-fuelled gangs impale heads on stakes and dissolve thousands of corpses in acid." Linda Diebel, The Star, National Affairs Writer'
The drug cartels are a police problem and something we as Canadians have not been good at solving as one can easily read about Vancouver, Windsor, Montreal and the like.
Should there be a military response?
Do we go into Mexico and the help them?
Do we go to the border of the US and Mexico and simply build and Isreali style wall and man the gates?
Thats is an issue but I think a greater issues and something that is more important to Canadians is the drug cartels coming to the north.
"CBC- Kamloops "Dozens of homes and businesses in Kamloops, B.C., have been evacuated as police investigate three suspicious objects found near a downtown building on Saturday morning.
Mounties have found what they call three "items of concern" near the Scotiabank building at 3rd Avenue and Victoria Street — one of which is believed to be leaning against a natural gas meter. RCMP Const. Rose Dunsmore said the RCMP's bomb squad is flying to Kamloops from the Lower Mainland to assist in the investigation. Dunsmore said police have cordoned off and evacuated a three-block radius, from 1st Avenue to 3rd avenue and Landsdowne to Seymour streets. "We do have Terasen [a natural gas distributor in B.C.] gas [officials] on scene as well. They have managed to shut off gas to that particular building and we're still looking at making sure that area stays clear of any kind of public individuals here," she said.
"We want to make sure everyone just stays out of that area in the interest of public safety."
The general public is advised to avoid the area until police determine whether any of the packages pose a threat. Dunsmore said one long, closed-off pipe was found leaning against the building's gas meter. In the immediate vicinity, police also found a case with wires coming out of it and another carrying case. Kamloops is in B.C.'s southern Interior, about 250 kilometres northeast of Vancouver."
Another article on cartels coming north
"Already this year in the Vancouver area – nicknamed the gang capital of Canada – there have been 30 shootings (with 12 fatalities) directly linked to the gang shakeout in Mexico and tracked by the Washington-based Council on Hemispheric Affairs. Some 130 gangs operate in B.C., among them Red Scorpions, United Nations, MS-13, Bacon Brothers, Hells Angels and various independents – all with ties of varying degrees to lucrative Mexican cocaine, among other drugs from other places. "Vancouver and British Columbia are unfortunately the focus of the largest number of organized crime groups in Canada," warned Peter Van Loan, federal public safety minister and solicitor-general, in a speech in Langley this year. A few days earlier, a gangster died nearby in a Mexican-style execution by machine-gun fire at the Thunderbird Village Mall.
In Mexico, where nearly 11,000 have died since Mexican President Felipe Calderón launched his government's "war on drugs" in 2006, drug-fuelled gangs impale heads on stakes and dissolve thousands of corpses in acid.
In Tijuana, a border town almost due south down the I-5 from Vancouver, there are three, maybe four drug murders a day and cartel henchmen take down local cops for sport.
In Vancouver, police are witnessing an escalation in the brutality of killings. Recently, in an apparently targeted hit, a gangster shot a young mother in her car as her 4-year-old sat in the back seat. Once, such actions were forbidden by established drug protocol. Now, collateral damage is routine in the slaughterhouse of gangland hits." Already this year in the Vancouver area – nicknamed the gang capital of Canada – there have been 30 shootings (with 12 fatalities) directly linked to the gang shakeout in Mexico and tracked by the Washington-based Council on Hemispheric Affairs. Some 130 gangs operate in B.C., among them Red Scorpions, United Nations, MS-13, Bacon Brothers, Hells Angels and various independents – all with ties of varying degrees to lucrative Mexican cocaine, among other drugs from other places. "Vancouver and British Columbia are unfortunately the focus of the largest number of organized crime groups in Canada," warned Peter Van Loan, federal public safety minister and solicitor-general, in a speech in Langley this year. A few days earlier, a gangster died nearby in a Mexican-style execution by machine-gun fire at the Thunderbird Village Mall.
In Mexico, where nearly 11,000 have died since Mexican President Felipe Calderón launched his government's "war on drugs" in 2006, drug-fuelled gangs impale heads on stakes and dissolve thousands of corpses in acid." Linda Diebel, The Star, National Affairs Writer'
The drug cartels are a police problem and something we as Canadians have not been good at solving as one can easily read about Vancouver, Windsor, Montreal and the like.
Should there be a military response?
Do we go into Mexico and the help them?
Do we go to the border of the US and Mexico and simply build and Isreali style wall and man the gates?
