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Canadian organized crime groups have a range of businesses including: - Answer
Smuggling, transportation, protection and bribery
When did contraband start in Canada? - Answer Fur traders in the 1870s
What was the earliest creation of Opium in Canada? - Answer Chinese merchants
opened several factories in Victoria to convert raw gum opium to smokeable form
What province was the leading North American importer, producer, and exporter of
Opium? - Answer British Columbia
When was Canada the largest supplier of alcohol related products to U.S. - Answer
During prohibition (60-90%)
What is the French connection? - Answer Quebec has special relationship with France in
areas of culture, commerce, and language
How was Montreal significant in smuggling? - Answer - Montreal emerged as North
American transhipment point in heroin smuggling
- Montreal is connected with New York City through St Lawrence river and Atlantic
ocean
By the end of the 1990s, Canada has established itself as... - Answer "continent's
preeminent supplier of high-grade marijuana, methamphetamines, and ecstasy"
Canada is a criminal microcosmo with at least three types of groups: - Answer 1)
Imports (mexican cartels)
2) Hybrids (montreal mafia, big circle boys)
3) Indigenous creations (indigenous gangs)
Describe the financial structure of an Organized crime group - Answer 1) Profits of OC
2) Reinvestment in criminal activities, investments in legitimate businesses (real estate,
cars, companies, etc.), management costs of OC
What are the common patters among "high threat" OCGs networks? - Answer - Using
violence as an integral part of strategy
- Infiltrating law enforcement, security, government agencies and the private sector
, - Having extensive criminal associations with other OCG's
- Having interprovincial and international scope
Street gangs - Answer - Use social media to encourage violence
- Involved in most OCG-related public shoots and open acts of violence putting innocent
bystanders at risk
What are the emerging higher risk opioids? - Answer Isotonitazene
Black/Grey Death
Xylazine
What are examples of non traditional OCGs? - Answer Cyber criminals and those
involved in money laundering
Approximately 50% of 176 Canadian organized crime groups involved with money
laundering maintain _____________________ - Answer International relations
- Half the groups with international relations are engaged in the cocaine market
How do criminals commonly pay for mass marketing fraud and make dark web
marketplace purchases? - Answer Cryptocurrencies
What has the government done to combat money laundering? - Answer Implemented
legislative changes to strengthen anti-money laundering regimes
What are examples of fraud schemes to collect money or personal information? -
Answer Government services schemes, identity theft and phishing, romance scams,
random ware schemes, elder-targeted scams, securities fraud, payments card fraud,
real estate fraud
What crimes are seen as "white collar" and why? - Answer Financial crime - committed
by competent individuals and interconnected OCGs
What were the earliest forms of gambling in Canada? - Answer (1500s) Natives would
use sticks and rocks to gamble on games of chance
(1800s) Gambling really started to gain traction and got completely banned in 1892
(1950s) Illegal gambling became a major problem because of organized crime
What was project colisee? - Answer (2005) Rizzuto Crime Family had run bookmaking
operation
820,000 online bets were made alongside various drug trafficking operations that were
coming in and out of Canada
What is a loan shark? - Answer Person or entity that offers loans at extremely high
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