One of the driving factors of the Indigenous Police Chiefs of Ontario forming in August 2019 was simply the negotiating tactics of Public Safety Canada. They would negotiate with one self-administered police service and then we would be told, “Don't tell the others what you were getting.” We would find out in meetings in the back rooms that one service got more or less than the other. In the province of Ontario, that was the driving factor for the police chiefs to get together. They formed the association and began sharing amongst themselves, which cut into Public Safety Canada's negotiation tactics of dividing and conquering.
