Public Safety Committee on July 23rd, 2020

Evidence of meeting #9 for Public Safety and National Security in the 43rd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was officers.

A video is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Issue of Sytemic Racism in Policing in Canada

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Ghislain Picard Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador

Terry McCaffrey Chief of Police, Wikwemikong Tribal Police Service, and President, Indigenous Police Chiefs of Ontario

Doris Bill Kwanlin Dün First Nation

Akwasi Owusu-Bempah Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, As an Individual

Jeffrey Schiffer Executive Director, Native Child and Family Services of Toronto

Allen Benson Chief Executive Officer, Native Counselling Services of Alberta

4:20 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal John McKay

On behalf of the committee, I want to thank Dr. Owusu-Bempah, Dr. Schiffer and Dr. Benson for an extraordinary panel. We've now had four extraordinary panels. From sitting in this chair and watching the intensity of engagement among the MPs, I can see that you are really influencing the direction of the committee. I want to thank you for that.

Before my staff cuts me off because I am going to say the A-word, I look forward to seeing you tomorrow morning. I believe it's at 11 o'clock, and you will need new sign-in material in order to be able to access the meeting.

The meeting is adjourned.