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Brosseau, who was named to the role Tuesday afternoon, spent his first full day on the job Wednesday touring a border point east of Kingston, near Lansdowne, Ont., alongside Public Safe- ty Minister David McGuinty. Brosseau, a former senior Mountie, said his mandate is to ensure that offi- cials on both sides of the border, and in communities across Canada, are com- municating effectively on their efforts to fight the fentanyl crisis. “I’m hoping to be able to bring an in- tensity to the work being carried out by the thousands of men and women in this country and the United States try- ing to deal with a real public safety and national security crisis,” he said. Brosseau spent more than 20 years with the RCMP, including as deputy commissioner and as the commanding officer in Manitoba. More recently he was the deputy national security and intelligence adviser to the prime min- ister. His new position was created by Ot- tawa in response to U.S. President Don- ald Trump’s threat earlier this month to impose broad-based 25 per cent tariffs on Canada and Mexico, tied to what he claimed was a lack of effort by the two countries on fighting the fentanyl trade. He delayed those levies until at least March 4 in response to border security commitments from both countries. The U.S. Customs and Border Protec- tion reports that it intercepted 19 kilo- grams of fentanyl near the northern border between October 2023 and Sep- tember 2024, less than one per cent of fentanyl seized by U.S. border guards in that period. Just 2 milligrams of fentanyl can de- liver a fatal dose. Brosseau said he is committed to re- ducing the amount of fentanyl heading south. “Getting the number to zero is in fact the goal, and should be our goal,” he said. “This is a national security and a public safety crisis. We should be fo- cused on eliminating the scourge that is fentanyl in this country and in the United States.” He said that if he could send a mes- sage to Trump, it would be that his ap- pointment demonstrates how seriously Canada takes the fentanyl crisis. Brosseau said he spoke with Canada’s Ambassador to the U.S. Kirsten Hill- man Tuesday night and they discussed setting up meetings in Washington D.C. “very, very soon.” Brosseau spoke alongside Public Safety Minister David McGuinty, who said cool heads and a disciplined ap- proach should prevail as Canada faces the threat of hefty U.S. tariffs on goods exported to the United States. “Four hundred thousand people a day cross that border, $3.25 billion a day in trade. There’s a lot at stake for our peoples in the United States and Can- ada,” McGuinty said. “There is a way to find our way forward.” The minister said a trade war would be a losing proposition for both coun- tries. While Trump cited fentanyl traffic and border security to justify his initial tariff threat, he also has complained frequently about the U.S. trade deficit with Canada and has said he wants Can- ada to become a U.S. state. McGuinty said that Canada will con- tinue to make progress on its border plan, which earmarked $1.5 billion in new spending in December and in- cludes listing drug cartels as terrorist entities. “We’re going to proceed as we always have, with good faith and good will. There’s progress to be made,” he said. McGuinty did not say when cartels will be listed as terrorist entities in Canada. —The Canadian Press DAVID BAXTER SPENCER COLBY / THE CANADIAN PRESS Fentanyl czar Kevin Brosseau (right) with Public Safety Minister David McGuinty at the border crossing in Lansdowne, Ont., Wednesday. Ex-intelligence adviser fears Trump may leverage intel sharing against Canada OTTAWA — A former top intelligence adviser to Prime Minister Justin Tru- deau says he fears the U.S. might put intelligence sharing on the table in talks about the state of Canada’s de- fence spending. Vincent Rigby said he worries about intelligence being used as a negotiat- ing tool as the Donald Trump White house seeks to extract gains from Canada. “We hear so much about defence spending and two per cent, and what the U.S. may or may not do if we don’t step up to the plate,” Rigby told a crowd at a Canada Global Affairs Institute conference Wednesday afternoon. “I’m afraid at one point, intelligence is going to be used as a negotiating tool.” President Trump and other U.S. lawmakers have been sharply critical of Canada’s failure to meet its NATO commitment of spending the equiva- lent of two per cent of its GDP on de- fence. Canada has fallen behind the pack within the security alliance and cur- rently spends about 1.37 per cent of GDP on defence. Trudeau has pledged to meet the target by 2032. Rigby was Trudeau’s national secur- ity and intelligence adviser during the early years of the pandemic. He said the Trump administration could even decide to weaponize access to American intelligence over some other irritant as Trump plays rough with traditional allies. “Some people scoff at that, but I know from my own experience that it wasn’t so much a veiled threat last time that he was in, and this issue was raised on one or two occasions,” Rigby said of the first Trump White House. “I won’t get into the specifics of it, but it’s a serious threat and we have to think about it.” Last year, then-public safety minis- ter Dominic LeBlanc told the public inquiry into foreign interference that such shared intelligence is vital to anti-terrorism investigations and pro- tecting Canada’s security. “I was struck when I became minis- ter of public safety the extent to which we are net importers of intelligence information,” he said on Feb. 2, 2024. Canada benefits from national intel- ligence as part of the Five Eyes intel- ligence sharing alliance of countries, which includes Australia, Britain, New Zealand and the U.S. Ottawa frequently relies on informa- tion from allies with massive, built-up foreign intelligence systems, such as Britain’s MI6 and the American CIA. “The Five Eyes has provided us with very, very good information at very little cost,” said Stephanie Carvin, associate professor of international affairs at Carleton University. “There is no question that Canada is an intelli- gence consumer more than it is a pro- ducer. That’s not to say that what we produce isn’t useful or relevant.” Ten years ago, southwestern On- tario resident Aaron Driver posted a video online saying he was a suicide bomber planning an attack. The FBI passed on information about the video and Canadian authorities intervened to stop him. — The Canadian Press KYLE DUGGAN Trump’s talk of turning Canada into 51st state not a ‘real threat,’ defence minister says BRUSSELS — Defence Minister Bill Blair said Wednesday that U.S. Presi- dent Donald Trump’s talk of turning Canada into the 51st state is not a “real threat” — while the prime minister said again there isn’t a “snowball’s chance in hell” of that happening. The two were in Brussels to meet with NATO and European allies and members of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group. They had a breakfast meeting with NATO Secretary-Gener- al Mark Rutte on Wednesday morning. Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Blair said that while Trump’s comments are “disrespectful and con- cerning,” he doesn’t see them as a ser- ious threat. “Certainly we’re concerned about those remarks, and I think over- whelmingly for all Canadians those remarks are offensive. We’re proud of our country,” he said. “We’ve assured all of our allies we’re prepared to stand up for our country. I do not believe that represents a real threat to us.” At a press conference later in the day, Trudeau went even further. “As I’ve said unequivocally from the beginning, there’s not a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada will ever be the 51st state,” he said. “At the same time, from having worked with President Trump for over eight years now, I can tell you that we have to take seriously what he says.” Last week, Trudeau told a group of Canadian business and labour leaders that Trump’s threat was “a real thing” tied to his administration’s desire for access to Canada’s critical minerals. The Toronto Star was the first to re- port on Trudeau’s remarks at an eco- nomic summit, which were played on a loudspeaker after journalists were asked to leave the room. Critical minerals are materials vital to a country’s economic or national security. Canada is a key supplier of 13 of the 35 minerals on the United States’ critical list, including tellur- ium, niobium and uranium. Canada exported $29.8 billion worth of critical minerals to the United States in 2023 — more than any other country, according to government fig- ures. Exports to the U.S. accounted for 59 per cent of all of Canada’s critical mineral exports. Trump has called on NATO mem- bers to spend five per cent of their GDP on defence, something no NATO country has accomplished. A third of NATO allies — Canada included — are struggling to meet the alliance’s tar- get of spending the equivalent of at least two per cent of GDP per year on defence. Blair told reporters the alliance will have a discussion about “the appropri- ate level of defence spending.” “Right now, I’m focused on meeting the commitment we’ve already made,” he said. “We’re working really hard to accelerate our spending to get to the two per cent threshold Canada has committed to. I believe that is achiev- able.” — The Canadian Press, with Associated Press files ;