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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The rub'n tugs never actually shut down if you can believe it.
Here's what you need to know about the Canadian massage places.
They're mostly immigration rackets, and immigration rackets do not care if their immigrants live or die. Someone is always willing to pay to come to Canada and jack people off for a couple of years or so if it means a lifetime of safety and benefits.
The other ones are straight prostitution and once again, they don't give a shit if their workers live or die either because once again, they have an ample supply of girls getting hooked on opiates and going into the oldest business known to mankind.
This is an industry where the most desirable employees for an employer are the newest. They don't give a fuck.
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.