Thanks for your reply, antimafia. I remember you posting about that on RD, about the funeral home/card, now that you mention it.

Other than that, I thought it was common knowledge that the Sicilian and Calabrian factions worked together in Montreal. Are people still debating/doubting that?
But, just because they worked together, never meant they fully trusted one another.
That's the relationship Calabrians and Sicilians have always maintained. The Sicilians view the Calabrians as their inferior cousins.

As far as those members of LCN being made not born, that's not always the case. When you talk about the Caruana's and Cun trera's, they were so huge because they were intermarried and not only made into one another's families, but born and married into each others families as well. They were strong b/c they were family, and not just FAMILY.
And in Italy, it is certainly true that mafia members are born as well as made, sometimes moreso. You're born into your family.