This reminds me of when we used to boil maple syrup and put it on snow (in the Gatineau area)
Was actually quite good. Made a kind of chewy toffee like candy.
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Saw some statistics in The Globe and Mail today.
US customs agents seized 43 pounds of fentanyl at the Canadian border last year and stopped people trying to illegally enter the US 23,721 times.
The corresponding numbers on the Mexican border were 21,000 pounds of fentanyl and 1.5 million.
Sounds like a much bigger problem on the southern border than the northern one.
Canada would be happy to try harder to stop fentanyl shipments into the US if the US would crack down on illegal gun shipments to Canada! Neither is easy to do.
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Wouldn’t it be easier for Canada to just adopt the US Bill of Rights as their Bill of Rights? 
/s
We already rewrote our constitution and bill of rights in recent years. The US might want to look at The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and see how citizens’ rights are described under a modern constitution!
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This prompted me to Google too. Apparently home grown fentanyl in Canada is a relatively newer phenomenon, likely caused by the crackdown on fentanyl coming from China.
Other sources I could find corroborated what you found, that the flow of fentanyl from Canada to the US is a pretty tiny piece of the pie.
Seems like if the US wanted to clamp down on it further, stopping the flow of precursor chemicals from the US to Mexico would be a good step.
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Maybe Trump’s real goal is to protect the domestic production of fentanyl in the US to create jobs in the US!
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I’d rather not think about how various states would abuse Section 33.
Maybe the US should learn from our mistakes and just not have a “notwithstanding clause”. Unfortunately, such a clause would probably be needed to get sufficient states to buy-in to other changes.
How China might fight back against more tariffs
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Iirc precursor chemicals used by mexican cartels typically come form china. Might have to google to confirm my news based information.
Perhaps originally, but the DEA said they were being smuggled from the US to Mexico. This is a few years ago, so it might have changed. This was one of the items I looked at after Googling
https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/DEA_GOV_DIR-008-20%20Fentanyl%20Flow%20in%20the%20United%20States_0.pdf
That’s a quebecois delicacy
Interesting how Trump puts 10% tariffs on China and 25% tariffs on Canada.
It’s an additional 10% on China. Many of the China tariffs put in place during Trump’s first term are still there. They are getting hit harder than Mexico and Canada.
Mexico responds saying it will lead to a tit for tat tariff war. This seemed obvious.
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they will now make us pay for the wall?
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Seems like we are going to pay something and get even less wall than in trumps first term.
“says his plan would do nothing to stem flow of migrants or drugs bound for US”
I kinda want the real quote for what he (the president of Mexico) said, because fck him too if that represents his attitude.
I should assume there was probably a reasonable position stated…
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I know from Canada’s perspective, we are not really in a position to start a trade war with the USA.
The President of Mexico is female. She has recently talked more constructively with Trump.
Mexico has been doing a lot to help with the border lately, which is a big part of why crossings are down significantly over the last few months. See eg Mexico is stopping nearly three times as many migrants now, helping keep U.S. border crossings down
Trump is going to say that he talked tough and take credit, just as previously he took credit for many things done by Obama. If it leads to lower tariffs, fine.
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