Canada has an airport drug smuggling problem, and it starts with the people loading your bags. Avery Haines found that corrupt employees have been switching bag tags, routing narcotics through the luggage of ordinary travelers who have no idea.

Sixteen of 17 bag tag switching cases traced back to Pearson. Hells Angels, Mexican cartels, and the mafia have all infiltrated the airport workforce. Employees can swap shifts with no scheduler tracking, so when police investigate, nobody knows who was actually on the ramp.

The Gold Heist. Two Air Canada employees charged. A retired police inspector who says the same system letting cocaine through a plane door could let explosives through next.

Topics: airport drug smuggling, organized crime airport, Pearson Airport, bag tag fraud, airport employee security

GUEST: Avery Haines | https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/exclusive-toronto-woman-wrongly-accused-of-drug-smuggling-now-photographs-her-luggage-before-every-flight/

Originally aired on 2026-05-22