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Duchesneau feels the heat Is Jacques Duchesneau the next Pierre Bourque? >> Duchesneau, mayoral candidate and former police chief, emerged from hiding on Wednesday to say he "regretted" a 1984 incident in which, as a sergeant with the MUC Police's drug squad, he ordered the forcible entry of officers into five apartments and the arrest and detention of numerous people without a warrant. >> Duchesneau's contrite words came only 48 hours after Michael Polak, a candidate with Duchesneau's New Montreal Party in the Victoria district, vehemently denied accusations of wrongdoing by his party leader. "Mr. Duchesneau says he wasn't involved and that's good enough for me," Polak told reporters on Monday. >> "We're looking at Bourque Two," Abe Limonchik, president of the Montreal Citizens' Movement (MCM), told the Mirror. "It's completely amateurish. This should serve as a warning to Montrealers. This is the danger of putting a group of people together so quickly, and thinking they can actually run a city administration." >> The 1984 incident was brought to light earlier in the week by Dan Philip, the MCM's candidate in Victoria and director of the Black Coalition of Quebec. When asked if, as a frequent critic of Duchesneau during his tenure as police chief, Philip was pursuing a personal vendetta, he responded: "If criticizing abuse of authority and basic violations of civil rights, if that is a personal vendetta, then so be it." --Philip Preville
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