Ottawa’s underfunding of Indigenous policing amounts to discrimination, services say
Nine First Nations police services say Ottawa’s “deliberate and wilful underfunding” of policing in their communities amounts to discrimination.Chiefs of Ontario, recently launched a complaint over the matter with Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.The complaint, filed last week and first reported by the Globe and Mail newspaper, details its concerns with the First Nations Inuit Policing Program, which is the mechanism the federal government has used to fund their services since 1991.
An internal evaluation of the program released last year also shows the “finite amount” of money in its budget has led to an underfunding of police agreements, which has created ongoing challenges for First Nations police services.
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