On Tuesday, a half-dozen Canadian officials — including Tricia Geddes, the top civil servant at the Department of Public Safety — met their counterparts in Mexico City for the second Trilateral Fentanyl Committee Meeting.
The commission came into being after Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador annoyed U.S. officials in March by insisting fentanyl is not produced in Mexico, and by blaming the U.S. opioid epidemic on poor American family values.
“There is a lot of disintegration of families, there is a lot of individualism, there is a lack of love, of brotherhood, of hugs and embraces,” he said.
Mexico was a mere transit
