THE MOB HITS JUST KEEP COMING IN CANADA. WHY?

It's been like the Scarfo era lately in Montreal.  In the last year alone, every few days it seems like another member of the Mafia in Montreal gets clipped.  One of the facets of these hits that many people don't cover is why.  This goes back generations, but it really revolves around two things.  Power and drugs.

Five days ago, Antonio De Blasio, 45,  of Montreal, got clipped sitting in his car.  He was shot several times, rushed to the hospital where he later died.  De Blasio had several underworld friends including Stefano Sollecito.   If you remember Sollecito was attempting to wrestle control of the Montreal Mafia, with his brother Rocco.  Rocco was whacked a little over a year ago.

The Calabrian(N'drangheta) faction is attempting to take over whatever is left of the Rizzuto Crime Family.  While this goes back generations, the one ingredient involved in the trafficking of drugs.  Montreal has long been a huge facilitator of drugs into the United States.  You only have to go back to the late 1950's to understand the ramifications. 

It was Carmine Galante, Lucky Luciano, who truly arranged the Montreal connection.  Joe Bonnano is often considered the architect of that, but it's not true.  While Bonanno used his power to obtain the opium field in Afghanistan, it was actually Luciano and Galante who set up the flow from Canada into the United States.  It was agreed at a meeting in Montreal that the Sicilians would bring in the drugs, in return for protection and cut of the proceeds.  Luciano felt that American Cosa Nostra bosses were risking too much by trafficking, so they agreed to allowed the Sicilians to bring it in. 

It was also Galante who established the Corsican connection which arranged trafficking routes from Afghanistan through Montreal, to New York, and off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia, and Santos Trafficante via Florida.

Since the 50's Montreal was the general hub of cocaine and heroin smuggling, along with cigarettes, alcohol and other goods.  Over the last decade MS-13 had totally taken over the trafficking of drugs into the United States, but it hasn't stopped the Montreal boys from doing what they do best.  In fact, the Calabrian's have an agreement in place with the Sinaloa Cartel.  They work together to traffick in drugs.

What we are seeing now, is a power struggle.  The Rizzuto's are all but done in Montreal, and groups like the Hell's Angel's are stepping in, in a big way.  The Hell's Angels have long been importers of drugs, (meth and coke) and guns.  So what we are seeing now, is a war between whatever is left of the Rizzuto's and N'drangheta, and now appears to be the Hell's Angels.

Also on the table, is cigarettes which is a million dollar business for the mafia in Canada.  They have infiltrated the Indian Reservations and have a strangle hold on them.  You only have to go a few years back when former pro wrestler Dino Bravo got whacked in his own home over shipments of cocaine and cigarettes and he was related to former boss Vic Cotroni.  Nobody in Canada is untouchable.

I'm honestly not sure how much left the Rizzuto's have left, but all appearances aside it appears to me that N'drangheta is eventually going to take over.  It's not a matter of how but when.  As long as drugs are on the table, and one side is significantly weaker than the other your going to have a war till one side is victorious over the other.