Seven years after CSSA issued a Special Report on the Danforth killer and his brother, along with their connections to terrorism, investigative reporter Sam Cooper came to the same conclusions we did.
The Danforth killer and his brother were suspected of being connected to Pakistani terrorist networks.
US intelligence agencies reached out to CSSA at the time, and confirmed we were correct in our conclusions. But they were surprised we connected the dots using only publicly available sources.
Sam Cooper, through his well-placed sources inside both US and Canadian police and intelligence agencies, learned that Canada is the major source of fentanyl imports to the United States.
There are also deep connections to Iranian state actors, a Chinese-sanctioned precursor supplier, and Mexican drug cartels connected to the Falkland, BC, superlab that the RCMP busted recently.[i]
Police seized “55 kilograms of fentanyl, 390 kilograms of methamphetamine, 35 kilograms of cocaine, 15 kilograms of MDM, and six kilograms of cannabis” along with 89 firearms (handguns, rifles and submachine guns).
Cooper also reports that a Canada Border Services Agency’s whistleblower states that Canada is being exploited by criminal networks – Iranian, Mexican, and Chinese – using the Vancouver ports.
“Only 1% of the containers that come into Vancouver’s port, the fourth busiest port in North America, are searched,” said Cooper.
These criminal and terrorist networks take advantage of Canada’s lax border and port security to bring in fentanyl and terrorists destined for the United States.
“I don’t know if the authorities are asleep at the switch, or somehow they’re in on it, or if they would just rather ignore it,” Candace Malcolm pondered during her interview with Sam Cooper.[ii]
Danforth Shooter Terrorist Connection
There were indications that the Danforth killer had terrorist links to Pakistan, but the Toronto Police and then-Liberal Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale, denied them.[iii]
“There is no national security connection between this individual [the Danforth killer] and any other national security issue,” Goodale stated.[iv]
That seems unlikely, given the Danforth killer’s brother, Fahad Hussain, possessed 42 kilograms of Carfentanil – a drug so deadly that a dose of just 20 micro-grams, smaller than a poppy seed, is fatal to humans – when police searched his residence.
The DEA wanted to test the Carfentanil seized from Fahad Hussain’s home to determine if it matched opioids trafficked into Atlanta from Quebec.
“The RCMP completely shut them down, would not share a single gram of that seizure,” Cooper said.
Although mid-level RCMP officers were willing to share the seizure materials and investigative details with the DEA, those efforts were blocked by senior Canadian bureaucrats, said Donald Im, the DEA’s former Special Operations Division lead on precursor chemicals, dark web drug markets, and narco-terrorism.
“I coordinated with our DEA office up there in Ottawa, and he was getting the runaround as well,” Don Im said.
“I’m saying, ‘if you guys had some 30 or 40-odd kilograms, and you couldn’t give us a few grams to determine whether or not there were any similar seizures in the United States?’ And they wouldn’t give it to us.”
The request was blocked at the highest levels of the RCMP, Im says.
Why is Our Government and the RCMP Unwilling to Cooperate with US Authorities?
“I’ve been saying all along that there’s an extensive amount of fentanyl and Carfentanil that have been coming from Canada,” Don Im told Cooper.
I’ve worked with the RCMP for years, and they’re great until they’re influenced by the Chinese,” he said.
“It was just overwhelming. And we just couldn’t get anything out of the RCMP anymore. They’d give us low-hanging fruit information, but when it came to money and Chinese and fentanyl and chemicals, they were like, ‘No.’”
“We tried but couldn’t get that information.”
Why would the Canadian government stonewall our American partners?
Why would the RCMP refuse to provide evidence to our American friends?
Why would they protect criminal and terrorist organizations from our closest ally?
Maybe Candace Malcolm nailed it when she said:
“I don’t know if the authorities are asleep at the switch, or somehow they’re in on it, or if they would just rather ignore it.”
The individuals who make up our government bureaucracies and the RCMP cannot admit when they’re wrong.
That moral failing inevitably leads to unintended consequences, like lying to our closest allies.
It’s got to stop.Quality reporting deserves our support. CSSA encourages interested readers to subscribe to Sam Cooper’s investigative reports at “The Bureau.”
[i] https://globalnews.ca/news/10840910/largest-drug-superlab-bust-canada-bc/
[ii] https://tnc.news/podcasts/candice-malcolm-show/
[iii] https://www.thebureau.news/p/canada-blocked-dea-request-to-investigate
[iv] https://www.timesofisrael.com/no-evidence-to-back-is-claim-for-deadly-toronto-attack/
