Public Safety committee  It's Mississauga.

Public Safety committee  I'll see myself out then.

Public Safety committee  I am Professor Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, with the University of Toronto, as we have established. I'd like to thank the committee, as well, for the opportunity to speak before you today, and Dr. Schiffer for his comments. In addition to my own research on issues of race and policing,

Public Safety committee  In choosing my words carefully, I would call it almost glacial. There appear to be efforts made towards some progress in some senses, and I'm not seeing that progress made in the actions of the membership at the federal level of policing. While there are numerous initiatives, w

Public Safety committee  I think the most important thing to consider when we think about relationship building between the police and the communities they serve is that you can spend countless hours trying to foster good relations and all it takes is one high-profile case of abuse to undo all of that wo

Public Safety committee  Table a plan to address excessive use of force. Table a plan to address the release of race-based data, which the RCMP has been reluctant to release. Address the community relations strategy, and recognize, again, that one high-profile case of police abuse is going to undo good w

Public Safety committee  Thank you for your question. I will need to wait for the translation.

Public Safety committee  I just need a translation on that, sorry.

Public Safety committee  I don't have it coming through for me.

Public Safety committee  Yes, sorry, I didn't have that. You're correct.

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much. Could you repeat the question? I'm sorry about that.

Public Safety committee  I think there's an important distinction between perhaps institutional racism and then definitely structural racism. We can put systemic with structural, but there are various forms of inequality present in our society, as I said at the outset, that lead to policing outcomes and

Public Safety committee  Absolutely. You know, I'm a relatively light-skinned African Canadian with a high level of education and a fairly high income. That would make my experience different from my father's in terms of experiences with the police. Although I would tick the box “black”, my father was mu

Public Safety committee  On the race data specifically, yes, I do. It has been collecting some from police agencies that provide that data to them. Others have a policy not to provide the data. Again, going to your intersectionality point, the more data we can collect, the better. I understand that's n

Public Safety committee  Just to clarify, my name is Owusu-Bempah.