Through the consultations and certainly things we've heard in committee, in fact, in every consultation coast to coast, people said they didn't trust police services across the country with making decisions about when alerts were issued.
Call to justice 9.6 calls on:
police services to establish an independent, special investigation unit for the investigation of incidents of failures to investigate, police misconduct, and all forms of discriminatory practices and mistreatment of Indigenous Peoples within their police service. This special investigation unit must be transparent in practice and report at least annually to Indigenous communities, leadership, and people in their jurisdiction.
I'm wondering, in the spirit of reconciliation and in knowing the violent history, particularly between police forces and indigenous women and 2SLGBTQQI+, whether you'd be open to having independent oversight on matters impacting MMIWG2S. If you do have oversight in place right now, do you have oversight specifically geared to ending, I would say, the epidemic of systemic racism within policing?