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Amid the angry scenes in the Commons, Trudeau protested that he was a surprised as anyone else by the Mounties escapades, a line of argument that left him open to the damaging charge of having failed properly to supervise the force. In France, Rene Lévesque observed tartly "We knew from the very beginning that a lot of these jerks were around. For a champion of democracy like Mr. Trudeau, to have that kind of a police political instrument should be a nightmare."


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