Bill Blair says he oversaw culture change at Toronto police, not everyone agrees
As he settles in to the corner office in Ottawa’s National Defence headquarters, Bill Blair is feeling pretty comfortable in his new role.
When the cabinet shuffle was announced, she and Blair both seemed prepared to respond to questions about the optics of replacing a woman of colour with a 69-year-old man. That raised eyebrows among those who have been closely watching the military’s reform efforts to date. Almost 25 per cent of all Special Investigations Unit cases about a death, injury or alleged sexual assault by police involved Black people, the report found. Black people represented 32 per cent of charges in the data from 2013 to 2017, though they make up just shy of nine per cent of the population.Alok Mukherjee, police services board chair at the time, said there was a lot of positive change in his early years. The force hired the first hijab-wearing officer, for example.
“What I understood is that Mr. Blair can go only so far, but he has a respect for tradition. His favourite metaphor tended to be, ‘You can rock the boat, but don’t sink it.’”“We fundamentally changed our our recruiting systems, our employment systems, our staffing and training and development systems to make sure that people would have every opportunity to be successful and feel supported,” he said.
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