Well considering just Vancouver. The hells angels have been allowed to openly operate in the city for decades, they own a significant amount of businesses and real estate in the province, the control basically the entire marijuana trade, including the shit that gets sold in legal dispensaries. Nearly every large grow operation is funded either directly or indirectly by them. Much of the financing comes from the thriving cocaine opiate trade that goes unchecked everywhere in the province.
Then on the other side, you've got the Asian gangs that have been openly laundering money through unfettered development across the city and increasingly more of the province.
None of this information is secret or hidden from police and local governments, they make too much money off it all to want to stop it.
Gangsters and cartels won't save us, they're already too embedded with government and both make too much money off eachother to be stopped by some kind of fully traceable currency.