Veterans in drug-trafficking investigations say that Canadian privacy and court procedure time limits also tend to severely limit pursuit of international criminals in Canada, in comparison to investigations by United States and Australian federal police.

Sources have said that Canadian police must file hundreds of pages of evidence in order to get phone intercepts for suspected drug kingpins approved by judges. But in the U.S., they say, such processes require much less paperwork and a more practical standard of evidence.

Australia and United States federal forces also have anti-drug trafficking policing operations in China that the RCMP lacks, sources said.

I’d much rather we had a diplomatic row with China over fentanyl or cyberattacks than because we handed over some executive over to the Americans for doing business with Iran.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/ ... fficer-in/

This has absolutely nothing to do with us. Echoes of Helms Burton.

It doesn't have to involve us. We signed on to conventions that mean if another jurisdiction wants someone, and they are in our jurisdiction, then we must comply.

Or we could become one of those countries that attracts all the people running from all the nice countries of the world, because we don't extradite. She knew the risks, and came here anyway.