Book Excerpt Killing the Golden Goose “He loses his chips and stalks around like a caged tiger for a minute and then rushes out of the casino.” In 2010, while Canada celebrated the Winter Olympics in Vancouver and the city was heralded as a global model of prosperity and livability—a small group of Gaming Policy and Enforcement Branch (GPEB) and RCMP investigators were in a different mood. The way Calvin Chrustie saw it, Vancouver was sort of like one of those exotically coloured tropical fish. On the surface, it’s beautiful. But the flesh is toxic. So in Vancouver, under the sparkling veneer of wealth and health, torrents of dark money from China were flooding the casinos and empty condo towers. A new financial system based on secretive transactions had become the city’s economic centre of gravity. The two dominant sources of liquidity at opposite poles: drug money and capital flight …