(Terrebonne) The Parti Québécois (PQ) is calling on law enforcement to intervene in Akwesasne to repress cross-border criminal activities, one of the sources of American President Donald Trump’s discontent with Canada.
Posted at 1:45 p.m.
Patrice Bergeron
The Canadian Press
PQ leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon accuses governments of “willful blindness” because it is an indigenous territory, straddling Quebec, Ontario and New York State.
Akwesasne did not demand the intervention of Quebec, Ontario or federal authorities on its territory, but requested in December a share of the federal funding of 1.3 billion planned to secure the Canadian-American border.
-“An offense under the Criminal Code is an offense under the Criminal Code, and the territory of a reserve stops somewhere, then where it stops the jurisdiction of the Sûreté du Québec begins,” argued the chief. PQ member in press scrum Thursday morning, at the end of the PQ’s two-day caucus in Terrebonne.
Despite the issue of territorial responsibilities and the autonomy of indigenous communities, he believes that it is possible to contact the Akwesasne police and set up a “collaboration”.
In December, - reported that the Akwesasne police force was requesting federal funds in particular to hire more officers, but it did not request the intervention of the SQ, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or even the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP).
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