Boubou Macoutes
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Les Boubou Macoutes was the popular nickname of special inspectors who knocked on doors of suspected "welfare cheats" in Quebec, Canada, during the second government of Premier Robert Bourassa, in the 1990s.
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).
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