photo opportunity at Langley Regional Airport<\/a>, the Langley Advance Times and other media were granted an opportunity to take photos and video of the helicopter making multiple fly-pasts.<\/p>\nAt the time, reporters who attended the event in the RCMP hangar at the airport were told it was one of two high-tech helicopters chartered to beef up border security.<\/p>\n
A just-published two-part WSJ series, about the way Canada\u2019s Prime Minister Mark Carney and other countries have been dealing with Trump, says it was an effort by the government of then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to convince the American leader Canada was cracking down on cross-border drug trafficking.<\/p>\n
It was suggested by Trump\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner, the newspaper reported. Kushner, who is married to Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump\u2019s eldest daughter, has been a senior advisor during both the first and second Trump administrations.<\/p>\n
\u201cShortly before Carney took power, the Ottawa government was desperate to rebut Trump\u2019s unsupported claims that Canada had become a major source of fentanyl. Asked for advice, Kushner suggested they produce a video that might persuade the president that they were serious about border security, according to the Canadian officials.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump was threatening to impose tariffs over the issue.<\/p>\n
\u201cTrudeau\u2019s government hired a film crew to capture two Black Hawk helicopters and a sniffer dog on patrol. Instead of placating Trump, it seemed to fuel his interest in revisiting the placement of the border,\u201d the Journal report said.<\/p>\n
In February, Trump announced the first in a series of tariffs against Canadian goods.<\/p>\n
At the Langley event that month, when asked, RCMP asst. commissioner David Teboul said politicians would have to answer why the Black Hawks were obtained.<\/p>\n
\u201cCertainly, it is also about optics,\u201d Teboul said. \u201cIt\u2019s also about deterrence. It\u2019s about surveillance. It\u2019s about preventing criminal activity at our borders, whether it\u2019s happening southbound or, these days, northbound.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the time, RCMP already had nine helicopters \u2013 six of which provided border surveillance and support.<\/p>\n
Since the Black Hawk helicopters were acquired, there have been reports they lacked standard Transport Canada certification, and one has been grounded because it was only approved for demonstration purposes.<\/p>\n
Langley Advance Times has reached out to the RCMP for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RCMP Black Hawk helicopters were bid to placate Trump: report Published 5:45 pm Wednesday, July 22, 2026 A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[903,49,48,163792,87674],"class_list":["post-819904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-lower-mainland","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}