How a 1970s inquiry exposed mobsters and educated Quebeckers

In the hearing room, a parade of mobsters and their unlucky victims tell their story under the glare of television cameras. Prosecutors go after ‘tired, beaten witnesses.' And hearsay evidence and extensive wiretaps are common- place. That was the scene in the 1970s during the Commission d'enquête sur le crime organisé. The aggressive provincial inquiry into organized crime would push legal ...