The medias in Quebec always been late in how the criminal world is in Quebec.
Many street gangs were already in the big leagues and for years. You have haitian and jamaican gangs that were already importing and supplying many other smaller gangs.

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/amp/324554/gangs-haiti

Article in 2006

« Due to their special ties to Haiti, some Montreal street gang businessmen patronize the island's traffickers and organize the importation of narcotics from Haiti to Canada. This has increased since the deportation, because of their criminal activities, of some of the members of the gangs from the north of Montreal to Port-au-Prince. “They are reorganizing in Port-au-Prince and maintaining contact with their gang in Canada,” confirms Mario Andrésol. »


https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...3063-des-courges-bourrees-de-cocaine.php

Article in 2015
« Street gangs had until recently an accredited accomplice in the most sensitive areas of the Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau airport, who helped organize the importation of cocaine between Haiti and Montreal, believes the RCMP. »