Of the Mounties’ 27,984 employees, only 14,439 — 51.6 per cent — had completed the anti-racism training course as of Jan. 1, 2023.
More than a year after committing to have each RCMP officer and employee take anti-racism training, the Mounties have revealed the full extent of their failure to do so.
The numbers also reveal which province had the worst compliance rates in the country — Nova Scotia — and which had the highest: Ontario. The latter province, however, operates its own police force outside of large cities; the Mounties’ duties are more limited in Ontario than in some other provinces including Nova Scotia.
That seems like a strange rationale to Toronto Metropolitan University criminology professor Kanika Samuels-Wortley, who studies racial bias within policing, including the use of training to address that bias. Vision 150 was designed, over the course of five to seven years, to reform the RCMP in part by addressing its systemic problems with racism and discrimination — problems that have, since 2018, led to the national police force paying out or potentially facing some $2.4-billion worth of damages in class-action lawsuits.
Nova Scotia’s lack of compliance is rivalled by Nunavut and Quebec, where the anti-racism course has been taken by less than a quarter of their employees and officers.
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