2025 Risk Report Confirms Hezbollah Crime Networks in Canada, Echoing U.S. Warnings Ottawa Ignored: Op-Ed

A federal assessment admits Hezbollah is tied to Canada’s fentanyl crisis and auto-theft epidemic—validating U.S. intelligence and my 2019 reporting, while exposing years of dangerous inaction.

OTTAWA — In 2019 I reported that professional money-laundering networks—linking Hezbollah operatives and Latin American cartels—were thriving almost with impunity in Canada, with what United States g…