A demonstration organized by the League of Rights and Freedoms (LDL) will take place on Saturday afternoon, at Place Émilie-Gamelin, in Montreal, to commemorate the third anniversary of the murder of George Floyd and protest against the government’s Bill 14 by Francois Legault.
Remember that last March, the Minister of Public Security, François Bonnardel, tabled a bill that intends to set “guidelines” to regulate random police interceptions and arrests, rather than prohibit them.
The Government of Quebec had also appealed a judgment of the Superior Court of Quebec ordering the end of this practice, deemed to be a “sneaky form of racism” and contradictory to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The Ligue des droits et libertés therefore calls for “recognition of the systemic dimension of racism by the Government of Quebec”, the implementation of the judgment of the Superior Court prohibiting random roadside interceptions and the prohibition of “police arrests (street checks) in the public space”.
Halftone post-George Floyd assessment
The event also commemorates the murder of George Floyd, committed on May 25, 2020, and the death of Régis Korchinski-Paquet, an Afro-Indigenous and Ukrainian woman who died in Toronto following a police intervention on May 27, 2020.
Maxim Fortin, coordinator of the LDL (Quebec City chapter), maintains that despite the strong media coverage of the homicide of George Floyd and the demonstrations that followed in the United States and Quebec, he remains disappointed with the “lack of political action Consequently “.
“The case of George Floyd has made a lot of people aware,” he said. A greater part of the Quebec media and politicians than before gives us the impression that they believe the victims of racial profiling. But this has not led to a real transformation of the public policies that frame the links between the police and the citizens”.
More details will follow.