Messed-up maple syrup: Crafty tactics complicate Canada’s fight to stop illegal drugs at the border

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The Canadian border agency is in a constant game of cat-and-mouse with criminal organizations that are trying to import dangerous narcotics as well as the ingredients for fentanyl — sometimes through "creative" means, says a senior border official. In an interview with CBC's The House as part of the program's ongoing coverage of the toxic drug crisis, Aaron McCrorie, vice-president of intelligence and enforcement at the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), said officers have seen a wide variety of "innovative" methods to smuggle drugs. "We see shipments being concealed in in machine parts. Being dissolved in liquids and being shipped...