The Quebec market is saturated with drugs and local criminal groups are increasingly re-exporting their stocks to new markets such as Australia. The arrest of an Australian biker who had just held a meeting with a leader of the Montreal Hells Angels, according to foreign media, has also highlighted the links between Canadian and Australian criminals in recent days...
The involvement of Quebec groups in the export of cocaine to Australia came to light in 2016, when three Quebecers, André Tamine, Mélina Roberge and Isabelle Lagacé, were arrested by Australian police. The police discovered 95 kilograms of cocaine aboard the Sea Princess , a ship on which the Quebecers had just taken a cruise spread out practically day by day by the two women on social networks.
The export of cocaine and methamphetamine from Quebec to Australia and Europe is also being done on a smaller scale and in smaller quantities, notably by sending postal parcels, according to court documents obtained by La Presse . Australian authorities have also announced in recent years seizures of narcotics on air travellers arriving from Canada and in goods such as canola oil.
Official reports also point out that methamphetamine has been following the same path as cocaine for several years...
