Charlatan providing law and order in Canada loses his heart at The Fringe (10)
I believe the answer is:
mountebank
'charlatan' is the definition.
(I know that charlatan can be written as mountebank)
'law and order in canada loses his heart at the fringe' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'and' could be 'n' (common abbreviation for 'and') and 'n' is present in the answer.
'order' could be 'ban' (ban is a kind of order) and 'ban' is found within the answer.
'the' could be 't' (the is pronounced as a 't' sound in some dialects) and 't' is present in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'providing' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for mountebank that I've seen before include "swindler" , "Fraudster" , "fraud" , "Charlatan" .)