In the book or Blood authored by Peter Edward & Antonio Nicasso. pages 104-105.

"Papalia was named as a key Canadian under the wing of the Buffalo mob."

"Less than two months after Pop's (Paplia) murder on May 31,1997. his lieutenant Carmen Barillaro was shot dead at his Niagara Falls, Ontario. Ken Murdock was again the shooter. Neither killing was directly traced to Vito,although his shadow fell over both crimes."

"In the late 90's, Vito was seeking to cut links to the American La Cosa Nostra and create a Canadian based Mafia that was no longer an appendix of the US organization. On October 22,1997, four months after the Papalia murder, Vito met with fifteen men he considered loyalist in a Woodbridge Ontario restaurant, Musitano including Murdock's one time boss , Pasquale Musitano of Hamilton. Also there was Gaetano Panepinto of Toronto.
Musitano and his brother Angelo were originally charged with two counts each of murder for arranging the Papalia and Barillaro hits.Eventually they pled guilty to one count each of murder conspiracy for Barillaro's death. Vito Rizzuto's name was left out of the court proceedings."

"The removal from the scene of Papalia,Barillaro and Mora certainly helped Vito create more space for his own independent crime family in Canada
free from the stumbling Bonnano family of New York. While politicians in Quebec were talking about separation , Vito was making his own version,except he wanted to take Ontario with him. "

"Murdock later told the Toronto Star that he was instructed by senior members of the Musitano crime family to pull the trigger on half dozen others, almost all of whom were key members of the Ontario Ndrangheta. Most were blood relatives and in laws of Paolo Violi: Jimmy Luppino and Paolo Violi two sons, four other family members and in laws of the late Giacomo Luppino."