Neither police nor health workers are genuinely surprised that drugs tainted with the rogue killer substance fentanyl have taken four lives in Toronto in something like two days. The peril is well-known to anyone who might be a street drug user. But the reaction to these deaths among some is that somehow the City has failed. Perhaps, but as usual the “root cause” solution is hopelessly vague. One worker said the City should have taken “more actions.” What does that mean? Seizing people off the street and jailing them to prevent their habit, or simple stupidity, from turning fatal? These heart-breaking cases are proof again that those determined to take dangerous risks will do so as long as they are free to roll the dice. We’re told that fentanyl is easy to make, quite often made in China and smuggled into Canada in personal belongings. Are the Chinese as responsible as they should be about exporting death to the streets of Canada?