What Bill C-20 is proposing is important, and an oversight body is not something the union is against. The data we're looking at collecting is very important. Our concern is that the data be used to address systemic issues, that it be used to provide officers training, that it be used to make real change and not that we simply use it to identify an officer who acted inappropriately and have him suspended him for five days and then that's the end of it. It takes real change, and we see it. We acknowledge that there are issues. Racism exists everywhere. It's something we need to combat. It's something we need to work on, but to make real change, it has to be holistic.
On June 2nd, 2023. See this statement in context.