Why the Sûreté du Québec is a political police force
Patrick Lagacé, Special to The Globe and Mail Patrick Lagacé is a columnist with La Presse. In March 2009, unbeknown to him, union man and Quebec Liberal Party member Eddy Brandone was being followed by the Sûreté du Québec. The SQ was tracking Mr. Brandone as part of a then-secret criminal investigation code-named Opération Diligence, that…