A lawyer in Vancouver is questioning the province’s decision to put $250 million towards the RCMP and rural policing.
On Nov. 23 B.C. announced that the money will go to “enhancing investments in core police funding.”
Kyla Lee, a Métis lawyer specializing in criminal law in Vancouver, released a Tiktok video speaking out against the money.
Lee said Indigenous voices are missing from the conversation.
“I mean, it is definitely something that’s absent, especially because a lot of the Indigenous communities that you see … across Canada have been asking for government support in moving away from the policing by the RCMP and moving towards having their own nation based police forces, and you don’t see money coming for that.
“The money is going directly to the RCMP, which … is the source of a lot of problems in the over policing of indigenous communities. And I also read this reference to rural policing as a euphemism for policing communities that are largely Indigenous,” said Lee.
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