Quebec’s provincial police officers, dissatisfied with the progress of labour negotiations, will begin donning colourful cargo pants, a tactic that was given the green light by a ruling that recognizes the right to modify uniforms as an “associational activity” that could be protected by the Canadian Charter.
“We have no choice but to resort to a means of visibility that conveys a message of dissatisfaction,” said Jacques Painchaud, president of the Quebec Provincial Police Association (APPQ), in a press release.