I think so.
What happened, historically and from what we understand, is that Montreal was Sin City in the 1930s, before Las Vegas. In fact, it was the Las Vegas of the north. Relations between Montreal and New York were very extensive. With regard to the Sicilian mafia and Montreal, the Rizzuto family has ties with the Bonanno family in the United States. The Bonannos are no longer the leaders, but they're still one of the big five families in New York. From what I've been told and from what I've managed to read, the Cuntrera-Caruanas came and settled here in Montreal in the 1950s after a very difficult period in Italy. Judge Giovanni Falcone, who was assassinated about 10 years ago in Sicily, realized the importance of the Cuntrera-Caruanas by sitting on the commission to examine witnesses in Montreal. That family then settled in Venezuela and forged ties with the Colombian drug cartels. It was roughly around that time that the world was invaded by cocaine from Colombia.
Montreal is really an Italian mafia hub. The fact that Canadian Italian mafia leaders are in Montreal—if you're talking about Nick Rizzuto or Vito Rizzuto—is quite significant. In my opinion, there's something particular about Quebec. That doesn't mean that doesn't exist elsewhere. However, the political or historical reasons why Quebec stands apart from the rest of Canada are probably the same reasons why Sicily stands apart from the rest of Italy, that is to say that Quebec is a special part of Canada.
To answer your question, yes, Quebec is particularly hard-hit by that, in my opinion. Furthermore, what's currently going on in Montreal is extremely important. I showed you the headlines from Le Devoir—which isn't my newspaper from this morning—“Break the omerta”, “Mafia at the doors of city hall?”. What's going on in Montreal right now is historic. I'm pleased because, as an investigative journalist, I did my share to make this affair explode. I was one of the first ones to show that there was corruption in Montreal. However, for 20 years now, we, my colleague André Cédilot and I, have been trying to alert public opinion to the extent of the mafia presencein Quebec and Canada. We also know that it has its ramifications at the federal level as well.
In any case, what's going on is a good thing, and it's good that the federal government is also taking an interest in what's going on in Montreal.