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After 20 years with no police force, safety tops voter concerns in this Quebec community

CBC Canada · September 19, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

After 20 years with no police force, safety tops voter concerns in this Quebec community

Provincial election signs are up in Chief Steeve Mathias’s community of Long Point First Nation, but he says there’s been silence when it comes to the issue he wants heard for his community of 600 people in Quebec’s Abitibi-Témiscamingue region.

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After 20 years with no police force, safety tops voter concerns in this Quebec community

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