Emergencies Act Inquiry is ripping the veneer off the myth of fair policing

The galling backdrop to this inquiry is that we haven’t named the foundational belief that underpins this whole thing. If it were thousands of Indigenous people driving trucks and setting up hot tubs on Wellington Street, we’d be arrested or dead within 36 hours.

Most of Ottawa's Wellington Street was blocked off by Freedom Convoy supporters, such as this one, pictured on Feb. 17, 2022, for more than three weeks last winter. This would not have been allowed to happen if the protesters were Indigenous people. This is what racism looks like on a grand, national scale, writes Rose LeMay.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ROSE LEMAY

October 31, 2022

OTTAWA—There were frantic texts from the RCMP about federal ministers losing faith in the Ottawa police. (Weeks after Ottawa citizens had come to this same conclusion, so better late than sorry?) There was concerned testimony that police officers were really sick and that was the problem (except t...

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