As he settles in to the corner office in Ottawa's National Defence headquarters, Bill Blair is feeling pretty comfortable in his new role.
This is his fourth ministerial job since 2018, when he was put in charge of border security and organized crime reduction. Blair has also overseen the departments of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness -- roles where he's been in close contact with the military.
"I have no doubt in my mind that he understands, given his experience, large organizations and how they work," Anand told reporters. "Diversity doesn't mean culture change," said Charlotte Duval-Lantoine, a fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute who wrote a book about toxic culture in the military.
"In spite of these efforts, the organization was still treating racialized people -- Black people particularly -- differently. That racial profiling had not gone away," Mukherjee said. When pressed on the difference between improving diversity within the ranks and making transformative culture change, Blair said there was "never any tolerance of any systemic discrimination" when he was chief.
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