Let's stop using the sanitized, gentle language of public health. The wave of death washing over Canada is not a "drug crisis" or an "opioid epidemic." It is a strategic, undeclared chemical war being waged against our nation, and the Chinese state is the primary architect of this attack. While thousands of Canadians—our children, our neighbours, our friends—are found dead in their homes and on our streets, the government of Canada refuses to name the enemy, choosing cowardice and economic compliance over the lives of its own citizens.

The supply chain of this poison begins in the poorly regulated and state-sanctioned chemical labs of China. It is from here that the vast majority of fentanyl and its even deadlier precursor chemicals flow. Don't believe the lie that the Chinese Communist Party, one of the most sophisticated surveillance states on Earth, is simply unaware of this massive industrial-scale export. They know exactly where it's going. They are allowing their nation to be the primary arms dealer in a war that kills more of our citizens than any conventional weapon could, all while enjoying the immense profits and the destabilizing effect it has on Western society.

From China, the poison flows through two main arteries of death. The first is through Mexican drug cartels, who import Chinese precursors, synthesize them into pure fentanyl, and then use their established networks to pump the finished product across the U.S. border and into Canada. The second, more direct route involves shipping the precursor chemicals directly to our ports, often mislabeled as legitimate industrial products, where they are handed off to domestic street gangs.

These gangs—the foot soldiers in this chemical war—are the ones who cut the fentanyl into everything. They press it into fake prescription pills, mimicking OxyContin or Xanax, which are then sold to unsuspecting teenagers. They mix it into cocaine, heroin, and meth to increase potency and profits, creating a deadly game of Russian roulette for any casual drug user. They are the domestic distributors for a foreign power's chemical weapons, getting rich by poisoning their own communities.

And what is Ottawa's response to this act of war? A pathetic policy of managed decline. While a hostile foreign power facilitates the poisoning of our people, our government's grand strategy is "harm reduction." They offer "safe supply" (a taxpayer-funded dose of a slightly less lethal substance), hand out naloxone kits to mop up the mess on the sidewalks, and talk about "de-stigmatizing" the issue. It is a white flag of complete and utter surrender. They are too terrified of offending Beijing and disrupting the flow of cheap consumer goods to take the one action that matters: declare the importation of fentanyl precursors a national security threat and treat it as such at our borders and in our foreign policy.

This isn't a health crisis that can be solved with therapy and safe injection sites. It is a war we are losing because our leaders have refused to fight.