The alliance concluded in 2012 between Montreal street gangs to share the criminal market with the Hells Angels and the mafia has brought down the killings committed by organized crime gangs in Quebec, according to unpublished data from Statistics Canada, obtained by The Journal. The same can not be said for the other four most populous provinces, where street gangs remain divided.
THE UNION IS NOT FORCE ELSEWHERE IN CANADA
The new business model of street gangs and their biker and mafia partners in Quebec has not yet been adopted in Ontario and Western Canada.

Here, the Hells do not control all the illicit markets like in Quebec. There are some alliances involving gangs, but there is more competition and it's very volatile, "said criminologist Martin Bouchard, a professor at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia.
"What's happening in Toronto and Vancouver is often little-known gangs fighting to try and pick up crumbs that remain in the criminal market," he added. Or young people exposed to the subculture of firearms who shoot for junk. It creates an escalation of aftershocks. "
We share the cake
Mr. Bouchard believes that the profile of gangs is very different in Montreal.
"They have reached a level of maturity. There is a well-established hierarchy with other organized crime groups. The rules are clear, we share the cake and we know what to expect. "
He believes that the police alone can not stop the violence between gangs in Ontario or the West "only by arrests".
"They can speed up the end. We saw it in Quebec during the biker war with the Carcajou squad and Operation Spring 2001 against the Hells. But they will need help. "
Moreover, it has not been possible to quantify the current Quebec gangs' numbers, as was the case in the past.
In Montreal, the SPVM says it no longer keeps statistics on the number of gangs or their members. The police services of Laval, Longueuil and Gatineau have preferred not to reveal their figures in the Journal.
♦ In Quebec City, where the late Wolf Pack made the headlines between 2002 and 2004 in an unprecedented juvenile prostitution scandal, the police say no street gang is currently established there.