Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2021-06-17 10:10:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Jack Harris",
        "fr": "M. Jack Harris"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"6810097\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, Canadians are coming to a greater understanding of the role that the RCMP and policing in general have and continue to play in perpetuating systemic racism against indigenous and Black communities. It has become unmistakably clear that the RCMP needs transformational change. It needs to evolve from a paramilitary national police force with a colonial legacy into a modern, bias-free national police service with civilian oversight and accountability.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6810098\" data-originallang=\"en\">New Democrats fully support the recommendations laid out in the public safety committee's report on systemic racism in Canadian policing, but make the following additional recommendations.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6810099\" data-originallang=\"en\">First, the depot in Regina should be closed. For generations, it has indoctrinated new recruits into the paramilitary culture and structure. It needs to be replaced with a national police college built from the ground up that provides professional education and training in de-escalation, implicit bias, gender-based violence, cultural awareness and the history of colonialism.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6810100\" data-originallang=\"en\">Second, the government should consult with indigenous communities on whether they want a separate indigenous police college to provide training for indigenous police services rooted in cultural knowledge and history. The federal government should provide any required funding and resources for this.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6810101\" data-originallang=\"en\">Third, the government should introduce measures to immediately and automatically expunge all criminal records of convictions and findings of guilt for the simple possession of small amounts of cannabis, which we know disproportionately burdens Black, indigenous and other racialized Canadians.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6810102\" data-originallang=\"en\">Fourth, we should empower mental health professionals to be the first responders whenever possible, since for many the police embody the systemic racism that has permeated our system.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6810103\" data-originallang=\"en\">While we fully support the recommendations in this report, the transformation that is needed will simply not be possible unless the <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">Prime Minister</a> and the <a data-HoCid=\"253386\" href=\"/politicians/bill-blair/\" title=\"Bill Blair\">Minister of Public Safety</a> take full responsibility for making that change happen with a whole-of-government approach.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"6810097\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, les Canadiens comprennent de plus en plus le r\u00f4le que la Gendarmerie royale du Canada et les services de police en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral ont jou\u00e9 et continuent de jouer dans la perp\u00e9tuation du racisme syst\u00e9mique envers les communaut\u00e9s autochtones et noires. Il est d\u00e9sormais \u00e9vident que la Gendarmerie royale du Canada doit subir un changement transformationnel. Elle doit passer d'une force de police nationale paramilitaire avec un h\u00e9ritage colonial \u00e0 un service de police national moderne, sans pr\u00e9jug\u00e9s, faisant l'objet d'une surveillance civile pour permettre une meilleure reddition de comptes.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6810098\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les n\u00e9o-d\u00e9mocrates appuient enti\u00e8rement les recommandations formul\u00e9es dans le rapport du comit\u00e9 de la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 publique sur le racisme syst\u00e9mique au sein des services policiers au Canada, mais ils font les recommandations suppl\u00e9mentaires suivantes.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6810099\" data-originallang=\"en\">Premi\u00e8rement, le centre \u00e0 Regina devrait \u00eatre ferm\u00e9. Pendant des g\u00e9n\u00e9rations, les nouvelles recrues y ont assimil\u00e9 la culture et la structure paramilitaires. Le centre doit \u00eatre remplac\u00e9 par un tout nouveau coll\u00e8ge national de police qui dispensera un enseignement professionnel et une formation li\u00e9e \u00e0 la d\u00e9sescalade, aux pr\u00e9jug\u00e9s inconscients, \u00e0 la violence fond\u00e9e sur le sexe, \u00e0 la sensibilisation culturelle et \u00e0 l'histoire du colonialisme.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6810100\" data-originallang=\"en\">Deuxi\u00e8mement, le gouvernement devrait consulter les communaut\u00e9s autochtones pour savoir si elles souhaitent la cr\u00e9ation d'un coll\u00e8ge de police autochtone distinct pour assurer la formation de services de police autochtones ax\u00e9e sur les connaissances culturelles et l'histoire. Le gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral devrait fournir le financement et les ressources n\u00e9cessaires \u00e0 cette fin.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6810101\" data-originallang=\"en\">Troisi\u00e8mement, le gouvernement devrait prendre des mesures pour supprimer imm\u00e9diatement et automatiquement tous les casiers judiciaires d\u00e9coulant de condamnations et de d\u00e9clarations de culpabilit\u00e9 pour la simple possession de petites quantit\u00e9s de cannabis qui, nous le savons, touchent de mani\u00e8re disproportionn\u00e9e les Noirs, les Autochtones et les autres Canadiens racialis\u00e9s.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6810102\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Quatri\u00e8mement, nous devrions conf\u00e9rer aux professionnels de la sant\u00e9 les pouvoirs n\u00e9cessaires pour agir \u00e0 titre de premiers intervenants chaque fois que c'est possible, car pour beaucoup de personnes, les policiers incarnent le racisme syst\u00e9mique qui impr\u00e8gne le syst\u00e8me. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6810103\" data-originallang=\"en\">Bien que nous soyons enti\u00e8rement favorables aux recommandations du rapport, la transformation dont nous avons besoin sera uniquement possible si le <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">premier ministre</a> et le <a data-HoCid=\"253386\" href=\"/politicians/bill-blair/\" title=\"Bill Blair\">ministre de la S\u00e9curit\u00e9 publique</a> prennent l'enti\u00e8re responsabilit\u00e9 d'op\u00e9rer ce changement et mettent en place une approche pangouvernementale pour y arriver.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2021/6/17/jack-harris-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/jack-harris/",
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    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "11401358",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Routine Proceedings",
        "fr": "Affaires courantes"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Committees of the House",
        "fr": "Les comit\u00e9s de la Chambre"
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Public Safety and National Security",
        "fr": "S\u00e9curit\u00e9 publique et nationale"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2021/6/17/",
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