Montreal Police Director Fady Dagher has nixed the idea of ending random police stops despite it being the main recommendation of a second comprehensive expert report on police stops and
MONTREAL Those who have worked with racialized families in Quebec say they feel forgotten by the Laurent Commission’s findings and fear the recommendations will continue to unfairly target Black children. Research shows Black children in Quebec are five times more likely to end up in youth protection than white children. The reason for that, according to those who work with Black families, is racism, particularly in schools. What we see is children who suffer from trauma who are removed from their families not knowing why they are not being picked up at school or why they re not going home, said Tiffany Callender, executive director of the Cote des Neiges Black Community Association