The signs have been back out in the streets for about 2 weeks or more. We should have a photo competition for the dodgiest looking "Spa" sign.
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Given that they are "licensed," I assumed it was money laundering. You could clean $10k/day of drug cash through each location, and with one on every block, 10 locations could turn $2.5million drug cash per month into legit bank deposits, which they then flip into real estate. That seems like about ~$35m/year of drug money cleaned into probably $25m in legit deposits in shell companies after commissions, political donations, and police payoffs.
Everyone is in on it except us.
Nah, it really isn't that sophisticated. Rub 'n tugs are fucking popular (especially with the government for some reason, to the point where parole boards encourage prisoners to use them and party leaders get caught as being regulars) and there's too much money coming into them to use it for money laundering.
Money laundering in Canada is either foreign money laundering which uses our housing market and casinos, or domestic which is generally done with retail stores and the restaurant industry.
If you've ever frequented an expensive pub where they tend to give away tons of drinks despite being fairly empty most nights, or a highly-priced retail store which never seems to sell anything you've encountered Canadian money laundering. The rub 'n tugs are a different kind of scam.
You're talking about small time stuff. I'm talking about the stuff that causes housing bubbles that price locals out of the market.
That isn't money laundering. That's just the government propping up a housing market that should have crashed along with the States in 2008 with the richest immigrants they can find.