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Boubou Macoutes

Nickname of welfare fraud inspectors in Quebec, Canada From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Les Boubou Macoutes was the popular nickname of special inspectors who investigated and visited the homes of those suspected of welfare fraud in the Canadian province of Quebec during the second government of Premier Robert Bourassa, in the 1990s.

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The phrase derives from a combination of Boubou, the popular nickname of Robert Bourassa, and the Tonton Macoutes – the secret police of Haiti under Papa Doc (François Duvalier) and Baby Doc (Jean-Claude Duvalier).

his expression reappeared in the 2010s, in the same context.^[1]

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