Canada’s legal toolkit is outdated, inadequate and built for an era that bears no relation to today’s sophisticated criminal landscape. The head of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, Thomas Carrique, reinforced this grim reality last week.

Carrique warned that “geopolitical instability and social unrest” have forced law enforcement to try to combat transnational crime, extremism, drug trafficking and online exploitation with tools never designed for such challenges.

Loopholes as trivial as the inability to secure a warrant for a Canada Post parcel under 500 grams — despite its capacity to hold lethal fentanyl — highlight the disconnect between legal thresholds and criminal realities.

Police have been flagging these issues for 30 years, but warnings went unheeded. Now, like

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