Undercover cops wore masks at protests, Montreal public hearing told

The SPVM will no longer have undercover police wearing masks at protests, they told the city’s Public Safety Commission — just one of the revelations that came out at a historic public hearing Tuesday on the force’s tactics at demonstrations.
It was a rare admission by Pascal Richard, the police inspector in charge of operational planning, that the Montreal police had, in fact, used undercover officers posing as protesters in recent years, during and perhaps after the student p