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Hon. Arif Virani

  • Member of Parliament
  • Liberal
  • Parkdale—High Park
  • Ontario
  • Voting Attendance: 61%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $182,131.24

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Context: House Hansard - 316 - May/23/24
Hon. Arif Virani
  • May/23/24 11:15:24 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I would say a number of things. In terms of the tragic death of that woman, that is an absolute tragedy that I feel extreme sympathy for. My heart goes out to her family. In terms of a response, we are working on a number of fronts. We are working on reimagining how we do policing and what policing is as an essential service. That is something that is governed by the Minister of Public Safety, and he is working on that. Second, we are addressing systemic racism. We are calling it out by name. We are addressing systemic racism in policing, including in the RCMP. Third, what I am doing specifically is working on an indigenous justice strategy that is targeted at curing the vast overrepresentation of indigenous people in both our court system and justice system, and in our correction system. That will help with addressing some of the circumstances that led to that fatality, which should have been avoided and needs to be avoided going forward.
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