2003-05-01

Bravo to Zanana Akande for putting Norm Gardner in his place. The first step in resolving a problem is to admit that it exists. Gardner and Fantino seem to prefer to live in willful denial.

A Police Services Board must do more than promote the force. It has to ensure that important community concerns are resolved. One has to question whether Gardner, with his apparent inability to ask the tough questions, is the correct person to act as its chair.

The issue of racial profiling will be resolved only when the community, not the Board, feels that it has. Gardner's actions can only be viewed as counterproductive to this end.

Gary Dale, Provincial NDP Candidate
Scarborough East