Bob Mackin
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre vowed Feb. 5 to beef-up security at Canada’s ports to stop shipments of fentanyl and precursor chemicals.
But he was noncommittal when asked if that would include restoring the Ports Canada Police or installing RCMP detachments on the docks. Despite national security warnings, Jean Chretien’s Liberal government defunded the force in 1997.
Poilievre came to Tymac Launch Service, with DP World’s Centerm in the background, on one of Vancouver’s coldest mornings of the year. He proposed life jail sentences for fentanyl kingpins as part of his reaction to Donald Trump’s tariff threats. Poilievre was joined by Delta candidate Jessy Sahota, a constable in the Delta Police.
theBreaker.news also asked Poilievre about the war of words in the Conservative nomination contest for Richmond East-Steveston.
As theBreaker.news reported, in the wake of the Hogue Commission’s final report, challenger Wai Young (an ex-Vancouver South MP) is peddling disinformation against her rival, the riding’s 2019-2021 MP Kenny Chiu. The foreign interference inquiry’s report confirmed China worked to unseat Chiu and other Conservatives in 2021.
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