"In Canada the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions enforce rules and regulations that cumulatively are equivalent to RICO."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_I...valents_to_RICOThe difference between Canada and America is that America accumulated the necessary legislation into one bill for sake of ease (which is what Canada SHOULD do, but won't). That aside, Canada does have methods of prosecuting criminals whom are attached to a "criminal organization".
1. I agree that less stringent criminal justice make it easier for OC to establish itself and due to the comparatively "minimal punishments" (mandatory 10 years for murder 1 is still a lot of years of your life to lose as far as I'm concerned) does lend itself to preventing internal strife within the Organized Crime groups for non-violent offences... However...
2. They do still have to contend with law enforcement who can and do utilize laws that are virtually the same as those contained within the RICO act.
