Hired gunmen in Canada are younger, cheaper, more violent and more plentiful than just a decade ago, organized crime experts say.
“This is ridiculous now,” said Pietro Poletti, a newly-retired, veteran organized crime investigator from Montreal said in an interview. “This is a new phenomenon in Canada.”
His comments come in the wake of the fatal shooting of Constable Marc Pinizzotto, 43, of the Toronto Police Emergency Task Force, Thursday at a highrise apartment complex on Martha Eaton Way in Toronto’s northwest.
The preferred narrative emerges: Islam isn’t to blame. Guns are.
