The list includes Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, Jalisco New Generation Cartel and La Nueva Familia Michoacana, and was announced a day after the U.S. government formally designated eight Latin American organized crime groups as “foreign terrorist organizations.”

Public Safety Minister David McGuinty and RCMP Commissioner, Michael Duheme say seven transnational criminal organizations are being listed as terrorist entities under the Criminal Code to fight fentanyl trafficking.