Mafia, eh!

My buddies in Mexico told me that the Cartels there have a choke hold on pretty much everything in their country from running drugs, controlling many lucrative industries to extorsion of small businesses.  I told them that NOB (North of the Border) or should I say, NOW (North of the Wall), they are called the Mafia.  However, in our part of the world we don’t have the Mafia because we have the Government.   Our government controls gambling, liquor distribution and sales, lucrative industries like insurance, they take bribes from developers and allow them to by-pass building regulations, they extort small businesses by having exorbitantly high property taxes and hugh increases in electricity rates.  Now, on the verge of Canada legalizing marijuana, the provincial government just announced that they will control the distribution of the supply.  They are leaving the retailing of it to the public.  Yes, control the part that is sure to make money and leave the street level pushing to the people!  Cartel, Mafia, Government, they are all the same, eh!