After all, the document was signed by more than 100 Liberal MPs, including Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland and 25 other Liberal cabinet ministers. Released Tuesday, the declaration contains a wide range of demands for reform to “minimize the consequences of systemic racism” in Canada on Black, Indigenous and other racialized people. But he said the government is working with community groups and the Parliamentary Black Caucus to decide how it will move to address racism in policing and other government institutions. Green said the statement wasn’t circulated to those parties because they have never shown an interest in the work of the Black caucus. “Conservatives acknowledge the existence of systemic racism in Canada; we condemn it and support calls to eliminate it,” she wrote.

Source: thestar June 16, 2020 22:02 UTC