The Canadian Press
Officers of the law who have spent the last three years patrolling Montreal streets clad in a bright rainbow of camouflage pants could soon be folding their protest garments. After a long strike over contracts and cuts to pension plans, the police union and the City of Montreal finally reached an agreement of principle last night, putting an end to tensions and a kibosh on terrible fashion crimes."It's a good deal for both sides, a negotiated deal, a win-win deal," police union president Yves Francoeur said in a statement.
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Man avoids $1,293 fine because pink camo-clad woman didn't look like a police officerThis is from Laval, but stems from a similar protest: a man who received a hefty ticket for "endangering the life of a police officer" took his case to court on the basis that the officer didn't look like one. Marc-Olivier Caron, who was reportedly speeding, failed to stop when a woman—standing in the road wearing pink pants and a red hat—attempted to flag him down.Officer Nathalie Dagenais, who had been conducting a radar operation, handed Caron a massive fine, so he brought her to court and successfully argued that he could not be charged with endangering a police officer because she was dressed like such a basic.He won.Police officers draw outrage for wearing dumb pants to state funeralYou'd think the funeral of a revered politician would be a good time to temporarily bury the hatchet and wear respectable attire, however…. in June 2015, Montreal police officers raised the ire of seemingly the entire province after they wore their dumb dumb pants to watch over the state funeral of former Quebec PM Jacques Parizeau. People were pissed.They rectified the situation a few months later at the funeral of Céline Dion's husband René Angelil, at least.Follow Brigitte on Twitter.