Mexican Cartels Expanding Operations in Canada, Using Indigenous Reserves as Factory Hubs

Mexican Cartels Expanding Operations in Canada, Using Indigenous Reserves as Factory Hubs

With Factories on Six Nations Land, Mexican Cartels Are Using Canada to Smuggle Counterfeit Goods Into the U.S. and Mexico “Project Panda,” a major Ontario gang taskforce takedown in May targeting a counterfeit tobacco factory on the Six Nations Reserve near Hamilton and Buffalo, exposes a long-ignored reality: Mexican cartel networks have deeply embedded themselves in Canadian territory near the U.S. border—and are expanding in tandem with Chin…