Juno News - June 14, 2020


The RCMP is not systemically racist

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Brenda Luckey George Floyd Trudeau
Is Canada systemically racist？ Everyone Is Cancelled

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2 minutes

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346

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20

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In the space of just a few days, the Prime Minister has managed to declare the iconic RCMP, the country s storied national police force which has served Canadians since well before Canada existed, as the harbour of systemic racism. While Commissioner Brenda Luckey was busy fending off the baying media, Trudeau doubled down saying systemic racism permeates most of our national institutions. He intimated that racism "perpetuates all of Canadian society." Well, that's rich coming from the guy who has appeared publicly at least three times in blackface.

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00:00:00.000 In the space of just a few days, the Prime Minister has managed to declare the iconic RCMP,
00:00:11.440 the country's storied national police force which has served Canadians since well before Canada
00:00:17.520 existed, as the harbour of systemic racism. While Commissioner Brenda Luckey was busy fending off 0.93
00:00:25.980 the baying media, Trudeau doubled down saying systemic racism permeates most of all of our
00:00:32.520 national institutions. He intimated that racism permeates all of Canadian society. Well, that's
00:00:41.900 rich coming from the guy who has appeared publicly at least three times in blackface.
00:00:46.960 Every Canadian should be outraged. On a personal level, I was. I was raised in a small town suburb of
00:00:57.580 Montreal called Greenfield Park, a town of about 15,000 or 16,000 people, of all denominations,
00:01:05.780 colours and creeds. As kids, we gathered on weekends at the local park. At the baseball diamond, football
00:01:14.080 field or outdoor hockey rink, we all met and played pick-up games of the sport of the season.
00:01:21.760 Regardless of ethnicity, all were invited to play.
00:01:27.700 I suspect my experience mirrors that of most Canadians. Those experiences formed us as we
00:01:34.700 grew up and took our place in those quote racist unquote industries and organizations. I joined
00:01:43.080 the RCMP in 1975, moved on to the Vancouver Police Department and ultimately to build a company that
00:01:50.920 now employs 10,000 people. We employed folks from all demographics, even into senior management. Any
00:02:00.040 hint of racism was quickly nipped in the bud and repeat offenders were bid farewell. So where do these
00:02:10.280 claims of systemic racism come from? It seems most likely that it is yet another knee-jerk reaction by
00:02:18.920 the Prime Minister to whatever else may have been going on in the world. In this case, the death of George
00:02:26.760 Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officer who has since been fired, charged with second degree murder.
00:02:34.280 However, we do not possess enough information to date to describe all police organizations, let alone the
00:02:41.960 venerable RCMP, which may have many faults, but systemic racism is simply wrong. For True North, I'm Leo Knight.