"CARDING" RULES AREN'T PLEASING ANYONE

Last Saturday's waterloo region Record carrys this story titled "Carding rules blasted by activists and police". Basically activists including the candaian Civil Liberties Association want carding simply eliminated. Politicians want to regulate it and the police don't want any rules around it all. In other words they favour the status quo which is simply that they can stop any citizen at any point in time and demand to see identification. For me that's far too close to a police state and is not acceptable. The 'comprimise" that politicians are coming up with is that police can only demand ID in regards to a specific criminal activity or incident which they are currently investigating. Of course the possibilities of abuse are endless as they simply can continue disproportionately carding blacks and other ethnic minorities and then verbally advising it's in regards to an ongoing investigation when challenged.

I hadn't realized what a problem and personal abuse it has become, but then I'm a senior white anglo saxon protestant. Not really likely to be profiled and in fact I never have. For other Canadians it is a slap in the face and it will continue to be abused if it is allowed to persist.