Madison: House Meeting and Kirsten Madison

madison: The visit of Kirsten Madison, the State Department's assistant secretary for international narcotics and law enforcement affairs, would be the first tangible step forward in the new joint Canada-U.S. effort that hatched out of the June 20 White House meeting between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Donald Trump. ; Stamping out opioid overdose deaths, especially in the Rust Belt states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania, has been a declared priority for Trump, whose path to victory in 2016 depended on voters in those states, according to National Observer. Trudeau announced the new initiative after his meeting with Trump, saying the two countries will work together and in multilateral organizations to find solutions to the crisis while deepening law-enforcement co-operation to combat trafficking.A senior government official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the high-level initiative, said Madison's July visit will start the discussion by reviewing existing co-operation and mapping out new strategies. That includes a renewed focus on stemming the flow of fentanyl into the two countries from China, The Canadian Press has learned. Only a small amount of illegal opioids enter the U.S .from Canada, which the U.S. readily acknowledges. Jim Carroll, the director of White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, has also expressed interest in coming to Ottawa to discuss opioids, said the official. The biggest source of the deadly drug for both countries is mail and courier packages from China, said the official. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.