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With one day left in the Alouettes’ rookie camp, one player was conspicuous by his absence — Wilfrid Laurier defensive-back Chris Ackie, who was selected by Montreal in the first round (fourth overall) of the draft this month.

This isn’t the National Football League, where high draft choices earn exorbitant amounts of money. Ackie is not holding out and this has not become a controversy, at least not yet. Eventually, the matter should be resolved. But he’s the only Montreal draft choice that hasn’t been signed and, other than Calgary offensive-lineman Sean McEwen, who went third overall to Toronto and is returning to school, all the remaining first-round picks from this year’s draft have signed with their teams.

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“We’ve pretty much gone as far as we can from our end. Either he shows up or whatever they want to do. We can’t do any more,” general manager Jim Popp told the Montreal Gazette on Wednesday, when rookies and quarterbacks hit the field for the first time at Bishop’s University. “It always is money. They want more than what we can do. We’ve gone back and forth. We’ve done what we can.