Our Healthiest Industry?

“Smuggling on the Canadian border.”“Counterfeiting gang caught.”“No escape from bloody mafia.”“Big drug seizure.”“Police hold six men for questioning in gang slaying.”“Canada in the bookies’ web.”

We have become more than accustomed to the urgent and incessant headlines about organized crime. In the last year, for instance, we have learned that Afghanistan is the world’s largest producer of opium, hundreds of Mexicans are murdered every month as a result of the cannibalistic drug trade, millions of dollars of impeccable counterfeit goods produced in Asia are sold worldwide, thousands of women are lured into the sex trade by eastern European mobsters, identity theft is the fastest emerging organized crime in the United States, internet hacking is eclipsing armed robberies as the modus operandi for criminal bank robbers and the Neapolitan Camorra has become a greater threat to Italy than the Sicilian Mafia. Moreover, we have learned recently that Canada is a...