RCMP needs to get beyond talk in healing relationship with natives: Editorial

When RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson acknowledged at a meeting of the Assembly of First Nations last December that there are racists in his force that he would love to be rid of, he was commended by aboriginal leaders for acknowledging the problem so forthrightly.

Now we find out, through a report by the Star’s Joanna Smith, that the RCMP and national aboriginal groups have followed up on that meeting with a series of encounters aimed at finally building a “solid relationship” after so many years of mutual distrust.

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