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Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre says he’s asked Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard to pass a law requiring police officers to wear their full uniform because he’s shocked the city’s officers wore fatigues as part of continuing pressure tactics during the state funeral of former premier Jacques Parizeau on Tuesday.

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“Unfortunately, we had our police officers who decided to dress all wrong and behave all wrong, and they demonstrated they have no class,” Coderre said in a four-minute castigation of the police union and officers at the public portion of the weekly city executive committee meeting on Wednesday.

The head of the Montreal Police Brotherhood should apologize to Parizeau’s family and to Quebecers, Coderre added.

Police officers have been wearing red baseball caps and camouflage pants, some of them in pink and other bright colours, as part of pressure tactics over the past year, as they contest legislation passed by the National Assembly at the behest of Coderre and Quebec City Mayor Régis Labeaume that rolls back pension plans for municipal employees.