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Canada barely checks cargo leaving its Pacific ports, a gap a new report says traffickers exploit to ship methamphetamine to Australia by the tonne. The paper, released by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, argues that Vancouver and Prince Rupert move enormous volumes of cargo with little of it meaningfully checked and that no single agency is responsible for closing the gap. “Traffickers treat inspection risk as negligible and build their business model around the odds,” Scott McGregor, a senior adviser with the Council for Countering Hybrid Warfare, wrote in his recent paper...