National Defence Minister Bill Blair is raising eyebrows over comments he made about overseeing culture change at the Toronto Police Service while serving as chief.
Anita Anand's departure as defence minister less than two years after she took over, pledging to change the military's culture and tackle the sexual misconduct crisis that had seen a slate of top generals removed from their positions, came as a surprise to many.
"We actually created the most diverse police service of any police service in Canada and one of the most diverse in North America," he said, adding that he has the experience of "working through a significant cultural change in a uniform organization." Toronto police are still reckoning with systemic racism. The Ontario Human Rights Commission found in a 2020 report that Black residents were more likely than white residents to be hurt or killed by police.
"Philosophically, I think he was on board and he did make some of his own efforts to deal with it, but he was not prepared to accept the kind of fundamental change that the board, having heard from the community, was directing him to implement," Mukherjee said.
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