Public Safety committee  Where Bill C-20 is lacking in terms of being able to address systemic racism and discrimination and the bias that is inherent is in providing the oversight body the accountability and strategic direction to set those priorities and that expectation for policing bodies and the CBSA to transform their culture.

Public Safety committee  Well, in terms of having the data, once you've collected all this wonderful data and you've done all your reconciliations and you've done the reporting, it's a question of who has the accountability to actually act on that data. This is where the government needs to set an expectation in some form of legislation that there is the public oversight body that has the accountability for making that transformation and actually measuring.

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chiang. Yes, the data should be collected. I believe right now in the bill, it's clause 13, the “Annual report”, that provides for data collection, but it is rather light. To Mr. Sauvé's point, the RCMP has been developing a national approach to the collection, analysis and reporting of race-based data in policing since probably about July 2020, in collaboration with the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police and Statistics Canada.

Public Safety committee  That's correct.

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Noormohamed. Maybe I'll switch to our comments around data and data sharing, because those things are fundamental and they are some of the things actually articulated in Bill C-20. A transformation is required. One of the many lessons learned from the mass casualty report is that there needs to be a naming and countering of the operation of misogyny, racism, homophobia and other non-egalitarian attitudes within policing, and that needs to be placed at the heart of the strategies to improve everyday policing.

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much. Good morning. I appreciate the invitation to appear as a witness at the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security. Although I am a commissioner with the Calgary Police Commission, my testimony today is provided as an individual.