social justice advocate and
"This is not a case of racial profiling, we are doing a criminal investigation", insists Sylvain Caron, director of the Service de Police de la Ville de Montreal (SPVM). Not so fast, Monsieur Caron! Racial profiling is more than "street checks."
Racism is an ideology that considers certain "races" to be inherently superior to others. For instance, white supremacy! As a Black man who was born and raised in Quebec, lived in Ontario for nearly 20 years, and worked as a police officer across Canada for 30 years, I have rarely met racist people. Discrimination in the law, on the other hand, is a distinction, exclusion or preference based on grounds prohibited by the Charter, which infringes on one’s rights and freedoms.