Green Party Leadership Debate Exposes Fault Lines Over Party’s Future

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Things got testy after a question on defunding the police cdnpoli

Some candidates such as Kuttner said they were absolutely for it but don’t believe it is an immediate process.

“I do not think that is the right strategy,” Paul said. “...There are some very bad people doing some very predatory things, and there is no amount of community or social services that is going to stop them from doing that, and we want them [criminals] off of the streets,” she said. “What we need to do is just be very clear about what is the appropriate role for the police and what is the appropriate role for other types of social services.

Merner said the problem lies not only with the police but with the justice system, which he said also needs to see “deep change.” He called for more multidisciplinary teams to handle a range of police calls. Green similarly urged a focus less on reactionary responses to more on alleviation of poverty. She called for an end to the militarization of the police. Murray said decentralizing services to cities and neighbourhoods would lead to better outcomes through community-based policing.

Perceval-Maxwell said Canada has a huge problem — though not as bad as in the United States — and called for the police to be trained better. He proposed that the police should give “$20 to every person of colour they stop.

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