BETTER BUT STILL LACKING

Today's Waterloo Region Record are still beating about the bush but at least they have published the Ontario Human Rights Commission's advice to Toronto Police Services including requiring "officers to tell people they have the right to leave and not answer questions". This is in regards to the issue of either "carding" or "street checks" both of which are illegal in this country and appropriately so. Exactly when did it become more likely that Canadian citizens would be confronted and or assaulted by police officers than by criminals?

Along with carding is the issue of racial profiling in Toronto. A legal challenge was launched last Wednesday by a black law student in Toronto. He has been stopped thirty times by Toronto police and is fed up to the point that he has launched a Charter of Rights and Freedoms legal challenge to the practice.