Quebec leaders' positions on contentious police red bands concern Indigenous chief

The front-runners in the Quebec election say they won't force provincial police officers to remove a symbolic red band worn to show solidarity with their colleagues who were suspended after being accused of assaulting Indigenous women in Val-d'Or. Indigenous witnesses have told two inquiries into their treatment that they perceive the practice as an act of "intimidation and provocation."

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