The dispute cut into the four hours of debate that was allotted for the estimates review. The process for the debate was itself not without controversy, given its departure from routine practice.
‘Any leader of the Conservative Party needs to think a lot more, a lot better about how to broaden the base,’ and address issues of diversity, racism, and inclusion in its own ranks and beyond, says Angela Wright.
‘It’s a racist system. We live it,’ says one Black prisoner of Canada’s correctional system. ‘We’re seen as rigid, defiant, very combative, non-compliant. These are the labels we get.’
