I was recently chatting with a friend and he informed me that 'extortion' is rampant in Toronto and and 'open secret'..though I wish to disagree with him, a few instances indicated otherwise - the recent news regarding canadian SLs collecting funds to support LTTE. I also heard of 'protection money' to contributed every month in the area surrounding the airport, especially for business to ensure smooth business.

Have any CDs ever come across this or heard similar stories? Is this true? Is this one the reasons, some lottery winners do not want publicity?

All 'contributions' encouraged..

Hiren

From my previous job a lot of SL were paying protection money. I am referring to 1998.

I myself paid protection money of $5 on top of meter parking in Detriot otherwise they break my car.

Mercury

Toronto Star ran a story on this a few months back . Sri Lankan Tamils paying the LTTE, Italian businesses paying the Mafia and a couple of other instances were mentioned.