Sam Cooper - How organized crime operates in Canada

The Macdonald-Laurier Institute

264,747 views  29 May 2025  Inside Policy Talks

There’s a growing sense on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border that something is very wrong when it comes to our security.

From compromised institutions to the flow of drugs and organized crime, a web of foreign influence and transnational operations has been emerging as concern.

Sam Cooper, one of Canada’s top investigative journalists, has been a leading force in uncovering and reporting on these issues. He joins Peter Copeland, deputy director of the Domestic Policy Program at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, to discuss the threats Canada faces, and the kind of political will and policy approaches it will take to overcome them.

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