Disambiguating the Wrongs of Racial Profiling in Policing and Championing Their Structural Remediation: A Reply

CANADIAN LAW JOURNALS have never been known for going out of their way to facilitate direct conversations between legal scholars working on cognate issues. However, if there is anything to the old liberal adage that the truth is more likely to emerge from the civil yet robust debating of competing ideas, the lack of opportunities for holders of rival views to respond, in real time, to each other’s arguments is deplorable. Therefore, I wish to commend the Osgoode Hall Law Journal for convening this timely scholarly exchange on the problematic phenomenon of racial profiling in Canadian policing and, more specifically, the under-explored question of how courts should respond to it in view of Canada’s distinct legal framework. I also wish to thank Terry Skolnik, Fernando Belton, and Jeanne Mayrand-Thibert (hereinafter SBMT) for agreeing to engage in this dialogue.