There is more than a little irony in today's reports that the SQ are busy raiding Montreal City Hall.
I have seen the SQ's routine bully tactics first hand. Somewhere in my voluminous archives is a video I took back in the early '90's on one of my regular trips between Ontario and New Brunswick.
I was on the highway between Montreal and Quebec City, and there was an SQ convoy of about two dozen SQ motorcycle cops on the road in front of me, together with a couple of SQ vans and 4X4's.
Unlike a normal biker run on a four lane highway, these guys wouldn't let anyone pass.
So for a good half hour traffic just bunched up behind these guys making a gratuitous display of their power.
But they have the moral bona fides to raid the office of Montreal mayor Michael Appelbaum today.
It's part of the Charbonneau Inquiry into "organized crime" in Quebec.
That's where every construction contractor in the province with an Italian name gets hauled in to get quizzed about what they know about the Mafia.
Not much, as it unsurprisingly turns out.
When not exposing massive Mafia plots, Quebec's moral arbiters like to pursue a largely pointless vendetta against the Hells Angels. Apparently some of the Angels, or "Hells" as they like to call them in Quebec, are involved in the drugs trade.
Insofar as that is true, it is only due to the stupidity of Quebec's and Canada's drug laws. Remember, prohibition made some Quebec citizens rich and famous, and the illegal trade in booze ended when prohibition was rescinded.
Hells Angels involvement in the drugs trade will end when Canada's idiotic drug laws are rescinded.
At which point in time Quebec's morality police may have nothing left to investigate other than their police.
And a thorough investigation of the SQ is long overdue.
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