Joel DeBellefeuille is on a mission. The Longueuil resident who won a landmark racial profiling case against that city’s police department has launched a Canada-wide initiative to dismantle systemic discrimination in law enforcement agencies across the country. His petition to Bill Blair Canada’s minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness is asking for the “enacting of legislation to prohibit racial profiling and influence the policing culture in this country, by requiring law enforcement agencies to establish policies and procedures to eliminate it from their practices in order to qualify to receive Federal funding.” It has received approval and is now lodged at the Parliament of Canada website and must now obtain 500 signatures for it to be brought before members and maybe make its way into legislation.  Read More

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA – The Red Coalition is pleased to announce that it is offering its full support and endorsement of the STOPMTL.ca interactive platform and website where citizens can self-report their interactions with police in Montreal. The Red Coalition is a group of like-minded people from all walks of life, shapes, colors, and sizes; fighting for one common goal, which is to eliminate the practice of racial profiling and systemic racism within Canada, while raising clarity and awareness to the mental health issues and public health problems it is causing amongst its citizens.  Read More

MONTREAL, July 21, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Red Coalition alongside their strategic partners and local provincial advocacy groups; North South Development Roots & Culture Canada and the United Black Caucus are pleased to announce that they have received full support and endorsement from the offices of NDP MP, Matthew Green and Liberal MP, Greg Fergus, in their fight to eliminate systemic racism and discrimination.  Read More

Picture this: you’re a parent, starting your weekday by dropping your son off at daycare. You’re enjoying your morning as you drive calmly through your neighbourhood, but you soon notice that a police car has made a U-turn to follow you. It follows you but never passes you or flags you down. You continue to drive with increasing concern—you don’t know what the police want.  Read More

MONTREAL (CityNews) – A new community-based police team in Longueuil, on Montreal’s south shore, is being established. The Quebec government investing $3.6 million to train officers on social issues and immerse them in the community to work on prevention first. Something deputy Premier Genevieve Guilbault says could lay the foundations for a new policing model for the entire province and change the role of officers in Quebec forever.  Read More

From worldwide protest over the killing of George Floyd to a scathing report on racism and discrimination at the city of Montreal, 2020 marked a long overdue awakening on systemic racism. But that awakening had its limits, as demonstrated by Premier François Legault’s continuing refusal to acknowledge systemic racism, or in fact even say the words. Here are some of the defining events in a year when issues of racism and discrimination moved to centre stage:  Read More