Nova Scotia NDP promises to ban street checks
Nova Scotia NDP Leader Gary Burrill sports a smile at a campaign stop in Halifax on Tuesday, July 20, 2021.Nova Scotia’s NDP Leader Gary Burrill spent Saturday campaigning in the largely African Nova Scotian riding of Preston where he promised, if elected next month, an end to street checks to curb racial profiling.
He added that his party is also promising to do away with the “suspicious activity” exception for the checks, calling the practice “highly problematic.” To make that kind of change, Burrill said his government would lean on the report, in which laid out several recommendations about the street check practice, including the eventual de-identification of historical street check data and ordering officers to stop recording information for “street check purposes.”
“The area has some specific relevant cultural issues that need to be addressed,” Beals said, including systemic issues in education, business development and employment.”
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