Incident involving Quebec prosecutor clarified

Since Nunatsiaq News “prides itself on accuracy and accountability,” I am sure you will have no objection to printing this letter on my behalf.

I was appalled when I opened your newspaper and read private, personal, and confidential information about myself.

I am “the girlfriend,” that was mentioned in the article “Former Crown prosecutor kicked out of town” (May 31, 2002). For the record, I was never contacted by anyone from your newspaper regarding this article.

There are a few things that I would like to set straight. I was not “drinking at the Ikkaqivvik Bar” (unless you count bottled water), my “collarbone” (or any other bone for that matter) was not broken, I was not “seen by doctors,” and “bar staff” did not “call police” on anyone I was with that night.

Monica Dunbar
Kuujjuaq

Editor’s note: After receiving Ms. Dunbar’s letter, we contacted Brian Jones, chief of the Kativik Regional Police force. Jones gave us the following information:

• On Friday, May 24, a Kuujjuaq woman called police from a neighbour’s house.

• Police responded to the call. A woman went to the Tulattavik Hospital, where she was examined and then released. Chief Jones said police originally believed that she had a collarbone injury, but later said that her injuries, if any, were less serious than that.

• Police arrested Louis-Christian Boisvert, a Crown prosecutor who until a few months ago worked in Kuujjuaq. They took him to the police station, and then released him.

• Early the next morning, police arrested Boisvert a second time, in the vicinity of the woman’s house, because they believed that he was attempting to go there.

• Later that day, Boisvert left Kuujjuaq.

• The KRPF turned their information over to a Quebec Crown prosecutor in Rouyn-Noranda.

• This week, the chief Crown prosecutor for northern Quebec told us he has turned the file over to the Quebec justice department, where the deputy minister will decide which Quebec prosecutor will handle the case. That process could take as long as six months.