MONTREAL Former RCMP officer Alain Babineau says he has been hired as an adviser to the City of Montreal s new anti-racism commission. The move, not yet officially announced, had drawn criticism, most notably from the head of Montreal s police union, Yves Francoeur. In a letter to union members, he complained that Babineau, who is Black, is too activist when it comes to policing and racism, and that he doesn t have an impartial view. Francoeur wrote in the letter, provided to CTV, that there s always room for improvement in policing and that police support efforts to eliminate racism. But the messages must be carried by people who bring people together and whose past testifies to this capacity, he wrote.