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2. What is the current situation?

Profiling exists and it is widespread. It causes harm and it will take a concerted effort to address it. The content in this section represent a snapshot and is not a comprehensive view of the state of profiling in Canada.

“The statistics on racial display in street carding demonstrate the lived reality of institutional racism that our people face despite the public rhetoric and celebrations around reconciliation.”

– Chief Bob Chamberlin – Vice-president of the union of B.C. Indian Chiefs

“We don’t have any racist police officers… We have police officers who are citizens and who, inevitably, have biases like all citizens can have. That’s the part we need to try to understand, and it’s a complex issue… as police chief, what I want is to have a safe city, so we need to find the right balance between respecting people’s rights and police officers being able to do their jobs.”

– Sylvain Caron – Montreal police chief

Click to download the full toolkit (PDF) and read a snapshot profile of these highlighted areas in Canada.

• Vancouver, British Columbia
• Inuit Territory
• Winnipeg, Manitoba
• Toronto, Ontario
• Ottawa, Ontario
• Montreal, Quebec
• Halifax, Nova Scotia

Watch Will Prosper talk about the profiling landscape.