Is White Supremacy Displayed on Canada’s most wanted Criminal Poster?

Is White Supremacy Displayed on Canada’s most wanted Criminal Poster?

Faces on Canada’s most wanted poster April 2022

April 2022: Is systemic racism displayed on the latest poster of Canada’s most wanted for murder, sexual assault and armed robbery? Only 5 of the 25 on Canada’s most wanted criminals list are white and the other 20 are visible minorities. Some are immigrant refugees; some are born to immigrant refugee parents. Persons that are of white ethnicity represent a mere 20% of the list, but represent a much greater percentage of the population. it would seem some could argue Racism Equity Criminal Justice are phrases with an obscure meaning upon which no action is being taken.

Of great concern is that more than half of the most wanted on the list come from the province of Ontario. Ontario boasts the highest percentage and number of visible minorities. Eight on the list come from Toronto. Only one is white.

Unprecedented’: $250K reward offered for information that helps arrest Scarborough murder suspect

A disproportionate number of visible minorities are on this list. The Toronto Police are offering the largest reward for the capture of a man of colour who is accused of murdering a white father of 4 in a Scarborough Boston Pizza parking lot. Is there a link between the size of the reward and the large amount of media attention that this case received? Is the fact that the “accused” murderer is black from a marginalized community and the victim a white father of 5 children a cause for what some in the Black Lives Matter leadership could say is disproportionate even excessive media attention? What have the three levels of Government done to stem inequities that lead overrepresentation of minority groups interacting with the criminal justice system? Racism Equity Criminal Justice

Justin Trudeau prime minister of Canada

Systemic racism is something that touches every corner of our country , that touches everyone of our institutions.

Rinaldo Walcott is professor of Black Diaspora & Cultural Studies at U of T. He was interviewed During the BLM summer of George Floyd by CBC. Below are some of his comments.

Rinaldo Walcott

Convincing itself and the world that terrible things that come out of colonization did not happen here (Canada).

People who were enslaved would run away (to Canada). Their masters (in America) would want them back. They would hire people to go catch them. and police forces emerged out of that.

Denial of systemic racism is part of the system of systemic racism.

Canadian institutions were built with the understanding and intention of not serving people that were non-white.

There are myths that we are radically different from the US. But both countries are founded on stolen and colonized land, both countries have attempted genocide on indigenous peoples, both countries have long histories of slavery.

In Canada, we talk a lot about the Underground Railroad and how people were escaping slavery by coming to Canada. But we don’t talk about what happened after the civil war. Many of those black people went back to the US. Why did they go back? They went back because things in Canada were just as bad.

And that is what we mean when we say institutional racism is a part and parcel of all the institutions, government and and non-government of Canadian life.

A Canadian identity that would be worthwhile is an identity that begins to undo the myth of Canada.

Pam Palmater

Pam Palmater, Mi’Kmaq lawyer and professor at U of T, was interviewed during the BLM summer of George Floyd by the CBC. Below are some of her comments

The police Target and brutalize and kill black and indigenous peoples.

Our whole society is based on white male superiority

Brooks Arcand-Paul, Cree lawyer Indigenous Bar Association

Brooks was interviewed During the BLM summer of George Floyd by CBC. Below are some of his comments.

Brooks Arcand-Paul

Over the past decade police budgets have ballooned. We see an increasing militarization of the police for a purpose that we don’t understand.

The whole purpose of the RCMP on the prairies specifically, but across Canada generally, was really to suppress indigenous dissent.

CBC Reporter

A CBC News investigation 2 years ago found that nearly half of Canadians who died in encounters with police since the year 2000 were mentally distressed.

Jagmeet Singh

We need to spend money on mental health workers and Healthcare response, not on sending the RCMP to respond to a wellness check.

Kathy Hogarth

Kathy Hogarth, Social  work professor U of Waterloo 

What defunding is asking us to do is come back to the table, examine our structures as they are and ask if this is appropriate for policing. It’s about how we get society to function as a whole, better.

We are being offered lots of symbolism without any substance. When I see the Prime Minister taking a knee, I think of it as a distraction. Here is the leader of a middle power in the world who could do much to demonstrate what moving towards anti-black racism could look like.

To view complete CBC interview: What systemic racism in Canada looks like. The police killing of George Floyd and the protests that followed have brought renewed attention to systemic racism. In Canada, some have been quick to deny its existence. But these experts say racism has been normalized within Canadian institutions.

These are the 25 most wanted Canadian criminals. 80% are visible minorities. Is this a symptom of systemic racist in Canada? What can or should Canadian government do? Many academics agree that massively increasing funding and housing and affirmative hiring of visible minorities is not enough.

Abilaziz MohamedMurder Toronto African
Ton Quoc-Hoang NgoMurderTorontoAsian
Jabreel ElmiMurder TorontoAfrican
Phuong Tan NguyenMurderTorontoAsian
Mohamed HassanMurder TorontoAfrican
Darriel ThompsonMurderTorontoAfrican
Usman KassimAttempt TorontoAfrican
Arian GhasemmaneshManslaughterTorontoNon-White
Abdelmuniem AbdallaMurderTorontoAfrican
Camarr BrownAccessory AfterTorontoAfrican
Savang SychanthaMurederTorontoAsian
Emmanuel RawsonArmed RobberyTorontoAfrican
Rosaleen WallaceManslaughter TorontoWhite
Stephen DuongArmed RobberyTorontoAsian
Gene Karl LahrkampMurderCanadaWhite
Kier Bryan GranadoMurderCalgaryAsian
Nouraldin RabeeMurderWindsorNon-White
Youcef Abderahim BourasMurder QuebecNon-White
Shadia Mahamed MuseMurderUSAAfrican
Mohamud Abukar HagiMurderWindsorAfrican
Blake CharbonneauPimpingQuebecWhite
Keyshawn McMillanHuman TraffickingEdmontonWhite
Ronald Jeffrey BaxMurderCanadaWhite
Yusuf AliMurderWindsorAfrican
John Norman MackenzieEscape Penitentiary CanadaWhite
MP Iqra Khalid

Conclusion: About 5 years ago, 2017, I was in a church basement townhall meeting held in Toronto in the upperBeach area. Liberal MP Iqra Khalid was there with Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith. The conversation was about policing, racism and inequities. At this date, I was unfamiliar with the proper protocols regarding sensibility to others and their trigger warnings. I asked if it were possible that the reason more visible minorities were incarcerated was because visible minorities committed more crimes. Iqra Khalid and Nathaniel Erskine-Smith told me and the rest of the room NO! When I asked them how they could know that, they reassured me and everyone else that, they knew this because everyone knew it to be true. Then I understood. The following link contextualizes what I understood.

Racism Equity Criminal Justice
Green Square Campaign Day Quebec Promotes Grief & Mourning

Green Square Campaign Day Quebec Promotes Grief & Mourning

Green Square campaign Day Quebec. 29th of January is the official grief & mourning Islamophobia day to remember the Quebec City mosque attack. It seems this national day will be used as a launching point to pressure the Canadian federal government to pass legislative Action Against Islamophobia and to pass legislation, tabled by the NDP, the London Family Act.

NCCM (National Council of Canadian Muslims) has tabled a list of demands contained in the London Family Act. The demands are:

  1. Education Reform: Removing Islamophobic content.
  2. White Supremacy: Prevent white supremacist groups incorporating.
  3. Hate Crime Unit: Allocate considerable funding.
  4. Anti-Racism: Funding councils to combat negative attitudes.
  5. Minority Recruitment: Regulate minority representation.
  6. Human Rights Complaints: Increase accessibility and aid for those making complaints.

PDF Our London Family Act to quell Action Against Islamophobia

Will Canadians embrace National Islamophobia Day to help Stop Action Against Islamophobia?

If all Canadian’s Engage in Grief & Mourning will Islamophobia be stopped?

Green Square Campaign Day Quebec

Shortly after this Attack on the Mosque, Canada passed the Islamophobia motion m103.  Because of this “whole government approach” to addressing systemic racism and Islamophobia. This includes a substantial funding increase to Islamic organizations.

NCCM is asking all Canadians to wear a green square in support of Muslims killed by people suffering from Islamophobia. NCCM ask all Canadians to do this in an attempt to End Islamophobia

Trying to halt Violence Against Muslims

Jagmeet Singh retracts offensive racist anti-Conservative statement

Jagmeet Singh retracts offensive racist anti-Conservative statement

During a campaign stop Welland, Ont on October 17, 2019, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh was asked if he would respect a hypothetical Conservative majority.

Responding to the question, “Just to be clear, you will not respect if Andrew Scheer wins the most seats, you will not allow him to form government, you will oppose that,” Jagmeet Singh said: “We don’t respect Conservatives. No.”

A day later Jagmeet Singh retracted his offensive anti-Conservative statement: “I believe that we need to build a country where we welcome everybody, we respect everybody, and I feel bad about what I said. We’re going to have differences of opinions. I want to make it clear: Our whole movement has been about making sure people feel welcome, they feel accepted and people should be accepted no matter what their political views are.”

The Ontario Human Rights Commission defines “race” as “a social construct” based on the understanding that “society forms ideas of race based on geographic, historical, political, economic, social and cultural factors, as well as physical traits, even though none of these can be used to justify racial superiority or racial prejudice.”

According to the Ontario Human Rights Commission, “Racism is a broader experience and practice than racial discrimination. Racism is a belief that one group is superior to others… It can also be more deeply rooted in attitudes, values and stereotypical beliefs.”

Based on the Ontario Human Rights Commission’s definition of racism, Jagmeet Singh’s statement “we don’t respect Conservatives” is not only offensive but also may fall under the category of racism.