Conservatives raise the alarm on Trudeau Liberal’s “black justice strategy”
By
Clayton DeMaine, True North Wire
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October 14, 2024
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While the Trudeau government prepares to respond to recommendations it received from a standing committee on “black justice,” Conservatives are raising alarms on the recommendation’s potential to worsen crime in Canada.
Conservative MP Jamil Jivani grilled the Liberal Diversity Minister, Kamal Khera, Wednesday at a heritage committee meeting about the recommendations given to the government in “A Roadmap for Transformative Change: Canada’s Black Justice Strategy.”
Jivani called the group’s recommendations “radical.”
“(The recommendations) include mass decarceration, reducing the number of incarcerated people by 30% over the next 10 years, decriminalizing a supply of 30 days worth of hard drugs, including cocaine, heroin and meth, and also defunding police departments by removing 25% of federal grants from eligibility to police organizations.”
When Jivani asked Khera if she as the “DEI minister” supports those particular “radical criminal justice policies” suggested in the road map, she accused Jivani of making a joke out of the issue.
“It would only be a Conservative that would be making a joke out of systemic racism (which as a result) have seen an over incarceration of black and Indigenous people in our criminal justice system,” Khera said. “To be making a joke about that is disgraceful.”
[Khera’s comments are, of course, misleading nonsense. Blacks are disproportionately in prison because they disproportionately COMMIT serious crime. The numerous “gang” related shootings in Toronto are almost all Blacks killing Blacks. “Systemic racism” is a bogus charge.]
In December 2021, the Minister of Justice and Attorney General Arif Virani was given a mandate to “address anti-black racism and systemic discrimination that has led to the overrepresentation of black people in the criminal justice system.”
Jivani denied making a joke out of it and accused the Liberals of “flooding our streets with drugs,” an accusation which Khera denied.
