Vito was made in Canada, into the Sicilian mafia, not the american. They were technically under a Bonanno flag, but loyalties were always with Cattolica Eraclea.
He was never going to take orders from what he and his family (the Rizzuto family blood and mafia) considered a group of thugs and glorified rats, which is how they looked upon the American mafia.
Back in the 1970s or 1980s (the time Vito Rizzuto was made) they didn't look at the Bonanno family like that. This came later on after Sciascia was killed followed by Massino and his buddies becoming government witnesses. Back in the 1970s the Bonanno family was still a force to be reckoned with and at the very centre of the heroin trade, being closely affiliated with the Sicilians such as the [BadWord] and Caruana families and Nick Rizzuto as well.
