Scheer says police forces need to do more to stamp out systemic racism but rejects calls to defund RCMP GlobePolitics
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer holds a news conference on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa, on June 8, 2020.Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says removing funding from the RCMP because of allegations of racism and brutality won’t make Canadians any safer.
Scheer was speaking today in response to several incidents across the country, including allegations of police brutality against a First Nations chief in Alberta and the fatal police shooting of a 26-year-old Indigenous woman from British Columbia in Edmundston, N.B.Public Safety Minister Bill Blair, who is a former Toronto police chief, says in a tweet that the government is “deeply concerned” by the allegations, which were made Saturday by Athabasca Chipewyan Chief Allan Adam.
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