Dean Gladue says he never experienced racism until joining the RCMP.
Nadine Huggins, the Mounties’ chief human resources officer, chalked some of that up to how it used to graduate Indigenous-only classes like the one that Gladue first belonged to, and whose members have now hit retirement.
Growing up in Saskatchewan, Heather Bear said she learned there were two justice systems: One for Indigenous people, and one for those who were white. They were dispatched from a detachment more than a 30 minutes away — a distance that underscores the realities of the contract policing model that spans the country’s rural and Indigenous communities, made worse by widespread vacancies.
Like Gladue, Cardinal first graduated as a special constable. After seven years on the job, he returned to Depot for training to gain his constable status.“What are they going to teach me that I’ve already taught myself?” he said.Article contentCardinal said he had aspired to move around the organization and work in larger centres, but found himself unable to.
In his home community of Bigstone Cree Nation, located about 320 kilometres north of Edmonton, he said they saw five RCMP members retire in the past decade — and get “no recognition.”
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