Canada restricts drug boat intel from U.S. Navy’s Caribbean airstrike operation

A group of people in uniform pose on the deck of a naval ship with large bales containing seized cocaine.

HMCS Yellowknife has just ended its deployment in a U.S.-led anti-drug-smuggling mission in the Caribbean, where American airstrikes on suspected drug boats have killed over 150 people. Canadian officials say the Canadian Armed Forces and Canadian Coast Guard aren’t involved in those strikes, and will ensure that intelligence about boats they detect and track is provided to the U.S. only on condition it not be shared with naval forces involved in lethal airstrikes in the region.