Oka Crisis negotiator John Ciaccia, respected by both sides, dies at 85

Serge Simon says he can still remember the almost daily police harassment he endured during the 1990 Oka Crisis.
At the height of the crisis, Simon looked to Quebec Indian Affairs Minister John Ciaccia as the “one government official trying to keep the peace.”
As armed Mohawk Warriors faced off against the Canadian military and provincial police in Kanesatake that summer, Simon was a 29-year-old welder trying to support his family. But to some Sûreté du Québec off