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While Justin Trudeau cozies up to China in a bid to open up trade channels, he claims he won’t miss opportunities to bring up the country’s human-rights abuses.

But, what about fentanyl?

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Canada is in the middle of an opioid crisis. Recreational drug users are being advised to be safe rather than dead, and pack Naloxone anti-overdose kits in their purses and backpacks.

It doesn’t take much fentanyl to kill you. A very small amount will do you in.

According to the RCMP, the greatest supplier to Canada of counterfeit fentanyl originates in China.

After all, what’s not made in China anymore? Anything that can be knocked off is being knocked off by Chinese manufacturers, with the least of their worries being contamination and quality control.

While the numbers for 2017 are not yet in, the federal government’s special advisory committee had Canada on track for 4,000 deaths related to the continuing opioid crisis, with fentanyl gaining notoriety as the biggest killer of all.