In July 2009, a black Québécois named Joel Debellefeuille was pulled over by Longueuil police because, according to documents, "his Quebecois name did not match his skin tone."[2] He refused to provide identification or car insurance documents when requested by the officer, and was accordingly fined by a municipal court.[3] Debellefeuille filed complaints with the Human Rights Commission and the police, seeking $30,000 in damages. [4]Crown prosecutor Valérie Cohen defending the police claimed that officers were in their rights to check the ownership of the car on a reasonable suspicion: "the officers’ actions were comparable to stopping a man for driving a car registered to a woman called 'Claudine'."[5]
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