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Book Review: Racial Profiling in Canada

Thu, 2007-02-08 17:26 — Scott Neigh

I had read about racial profiling before, but the first time I was really made aware of it in a personal way was while on a whitewater rafting trip at a fairly cushy, decidedly not-wild portion of the Ottawa River. We were a large group of mostly young people who were either part of the same workplace or had friends in that workplace, so some people knew each other well and others not at all. One evening, in amongst various sorts of partying-related activities, about ten from this larger group were sitting around a camp fire, talking -- eight young white women and men, and two young Black men. The conversation turned to past interactions with the police...

See the full review at A Canadian Lefty in Occupied Land.

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