The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is probing allegations that officers slaughtered sled dogs in the 1950s and 1960s as part of a secret policy to make Inuits more reliant on the government.

Inuit leaders in northern Quebec and the eastern Arctic have called for an investigation into the matter. They say RCMP officers killed entire dog teams.

The RCMP so far has said there is no evidence of mass slaughter. Officers do acknowledge some dogs were killed but that nothing out of the ordinary occurred.

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