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After a week that saw Quebec’s government and its indigenous chiefs clash over allegations of police brutality, expect both groups to strike a much more conciliatory tone when they meet in Montreal Wednesday.

The core of Quebec’s aboriginal leadership held an emergency meeting in Val-d’Or last week after Radio-Canada broadcast a report alleging police in the city sexually abused indigenous women. They demanded an immediate meeting with Premier Philippe Couillard and assurances that he would personally oversee an independent investigation of the eight Sûreté du Québec officers facing allegations of abuse.

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Cree leader Matthew Coon Come went so far as to insist aboriginal law enforcement be brought in to oversee the Montreal police’s investigation of the officers.

But with the meeting approaching, there appears to be a willingness from the Cree and other First Nations to compromise.