Public Safety Minister Bill Blair spoke with RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki about systemic racism in Canada's federal police force one day after she struggled to define the term and dodged questions about whether it existed within her organization, CBC News has learned. Reversing courseThe commissioner's reversal followed a string of media interviews Wednesday in which she wrestled with the notion of systemic racism and whether it was ingrained in Canadian policing. He denied that systemic racism existed in "the RCMP or any other Canadian police agency." That's systemic racism." "I suppose it's never too late to acknowledge that systemic racism exists in a large institution, especially in a large police force," she said.

Source: CBC News June 13, 2020 21:33 UTC