With respect to how we might encourage individual communities to identify and report hatred, I think the creation of specialized hate crime units within police forces is important. We know that, for example, in B.C., there are specialized police officers that work with Crown attorneys and that have become the experts in that area. As such, they do outreach with communities and have developed relationships of trust in which there's transparency and relationship building that has taken place. I think that's a model we can look to for other provinces and federally.
On May 30th, 2019. See this statement in context.