Black Parliamentary Caucus issues raft of proposals to address racial inequities

The caucus also endorses calls from many advocates to reallocate the budgets of police, with an eye to redirecting some of the funds to mental health and social services that are 'trained in nonviolent intervention and de-escalation.'

Liberal MP Greg Fergus chairs the Black Parliamentary Caucus, which is calling on the feds to establish an 'anti-Black racism directorate' in the Privy Council Office to monitor its progress. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

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BY BEATRICE PAEZ

June 16, 2020

The Black Parliamentary Caucus is appealing to governments across the country to act on a series of reforms aimed at addressing the structural inequities that disproportionately leave Black Canadians at a greater disadvantage. I...

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