Justin Trudeau announced the new Fentanyl Czar yesterday after Donald Trump expressed his concern surrounding how much fentanyl enters the U.S. through Canada. Kevin Brosseau has been appointed and Trudeau is confident about his decision. “I just announced Canada’s new Fentanyl Czar, Kevin Brosseau. With over 20 years of RCMP experience, he’ll accelerate our efforts to detect, disrupt, and dismantle the fentanyl trade,“ he said in a social media post.
Brosseau has had an impressive career in both law enforcement and politics. He served in the RCMP for over 20 years and eventually became the deputy commissioner in Manitoba. When he was younger, he graduated at the top of his class at the University of Alberta Law School and went on to attend Harvard Law with an impressive $15,000 US Fulbright Foundation Scholarship. He then became a lawyer for three years in 2005 and went on to become Transport Canada’s assistant deputy minister of safety and security, which led to associate deputy minister of Fisheries and Oceans. Since 2024, Brosseau has been the Prime Minister’s Deputy National Security and Intelligence Advisor and proved himself time and time again when it came to some major crimes.
His new job as the Fentanyl Czar will consist of working closely with U.S. law enforcement to accelerate Canada’s work to dismantle the fentanyl trade across the border.
