'Not good enough to be better than another country' on anti-racism, diversity minister says
“We recognize that there are people from coast to coast to coast that are having their voices heard and asking for the necessary reforms. And right now we need to be listening, and we need to be hearing people's lived experiences. We cannot dismiss them,” Chagger said in an interview on CTV’s Question Period when asked her position on defunding police.
Rising out of the ongoing anti-racism protests happening in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere, there are a growing number of voices calling for some taxpayer funding for to be reallocated from law enforcement budgets into mental health and community services. “Racism exists in Canada, there is discrimination within our institutions within our hiring practices, and we have a lot of work to do,” she said. “We need to make sure that there is unconscious bias training. Racism is learned, and it's important that those behaviours be unlearned so that we can do a better job and have better outcomes.
CTV News public safety analyst and former Ontario Provincial Police chief Chris Lewis said he doesn’t want the public to “have the perception that policing is rife with racism across this country.”
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