CC205 Chapter Notes - Chapter N/A: North American Free Trade Agreement, Canadian Whisky, Frank Nitti
Document Summary
Canada"s border with the us is the most striking geographical feature with major criminal implications. Borders total 8,893 km -> 3x as long as the us/mexico border. Geographical features and their implication on organized crime: lakes as cross-water international smuggling. Smugglers are more concerned with travel time so lake erie"s small size worked in the favour of criminals. Coastlines present opportunities to smuggle contraband, commodities or people in and out: colossus of the north. Occupies 40% of continent of north america. Canada"s vastness makes it easy to get lost, to hide or to conceal shit. Canada has great strategic value from a criminal perspective, enhanced by bordering the us. Greater demand of illegal goods and services because of us. Geographical location also strategic for legal economy. Nafta did good things for both legal and underground economies. Themes: canada has a long established historical role in production, consumption, import and export of contraband including drugs.
