Why is it that the Italian mafia has thrived in Montreal (maintaining thousands of made members and conducting dozens of high profile hits in the 2010's) while New York City's Five Families have weakened drastically in the last few decades?
For context, I am referring mainly to Montreal’s Rizzuto crime family, as opposed to the Bonanno, Lucchese, Gambino, Colombo, and Genovese families of NYC (as well as the smaller DeCavalcante family of NJ)