Mr. Chair, I'm extremely grateful for this opportunity.
Minister Blair, regarding the language in the mandate letter, I had to search for it to figure out whether this is really speaking to racism, but the idea that you have been mandated to address “unconscious bias and cultural competency training” seems to coalesce around the idea that Superintendent Lucki has told us that we're going to see anti-racism training.
I want to put something to you and ask whether you don't think this would be more productive. In the United States, in 2006, the FBI reported that white supremacist groups were deliberately infiltrating law enforcement and the U.S. military. Are you willing to take this on and ask your CBSA and RCMP directors to do a complete screen of the social media content of all their employees and find the ones who belong to Proud Boys, find the ones who were white supremacists, who don't have unconscious bias but have overt racism, and remove those people from service?