News Analysis
Fifty years ago, amid an escalating organized crime problem in the United States, it took the creation of specialized teams and an innovative law, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, to deal a serious blow to mob operations.
Today, facing an ever-growing influence and subversion operation by China’s communist regime targeting countries like Canada, what key tools can be developed to help ward off activities that are clearly against Canada’s interests yet our security apparatus and justice system seem helpless to counter?
The answer is more complex when it involves a sophisticated state actor with boundless resources dedicated to exploiting gaps in democratic countries. Former intelligence and law enforcement officials and other experts suggest a number of reforms and new approaches, with some emphasizing that there needs to be political will to make real change happen….