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Over the past month, The Bureau has traced a pattern of numerous cases linking Canada—especially Vancouver’s port and airport—to methamphetamine pipelines feeding overseas markets including New Zealand and Australia. Reporting uncovered prosecutions showing methods engineered to exploit not only Canada’s transportation infrastructure but also its international image and brand. In January 2023, three men were convicted in the largest meth seizure ever at New Zealand’s border: 713.8 kilograms disguised as maple syrup bottles shipped from Vancouver. Yesterday in Australia, a drug importer was sentenced over a scheme that used 18 pallets of “canola oil” jugs shipped from Vancouver to conceal liquid methamphetamine. Prosecutors said the load hid 629 kilograms—worth about 150 million Australian dollars—and the Australian ringleader, taking direction from Canada-based traffickers, had agreed to receive it. In a twist, before the container left Vancouver in January 2023, police quietly swapped...

 ... "A perfect baby girl with blue eyes and fine dark hair, who was only 33 days old on the day she died, cannot have died without all of us knowing of her loss," Moher wrote in the report, published Monday. "We must all stand for her so that the profound tragedy of her death from methamphetamine poisoning is known. WE must do more," Moher added, capitalizing "we" for emphasis ... CLICK HERE for the full story