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As a person of colour who grew up in #yxe amid many awful racial incidents, I am beyond proud of @KayceeMaduYEG today. The NDP defended carding for four years. Madu banned it within four months as justice minister. 1/7 #ableg #yegcc #yyccc #yeg #yyc
. @MikeEllis was the first person I heard challenge carding in the #ableg. He knew, as a former @CalgaryPolice officer, that it was unconstitutional. He spent years raising it as a concern, and was ruthlessly mocked by then-Justice Minister @KathleenGanley. 2/7 #ableg
Ganley had only been called to the bar a few years earlier, but attacked Ellis on his education, specifically the fact he wasn't a lawyer. Ellis, a former CPS Sergeant, stood strong and worked with community groups, including members of #blm, on the carding file. 3/7 #ableg
The NDP are all talk, no action on issues of race and equality. They lack the political will, courage, temperament and work ethic to build consensus and achieve meaningful change. Madu is everything they’re not. He is the real deal. 4/7 #ableg
When Madu was a lawyer, he put in endless hours of pro bono work for Black people and new immigrants who lacked means. Today, be banned carding for all marginalized people. He will be remembered forever for this principled and brave act of police reform. 5/7 #ableg
You won’t hear the NDP offer a word of support for this unless they’re put on the spot. They only care about these issues so long as they’re politically expedient, hence their inaction in government. Communities know and will speak loudly when they get the chance. 6/7 #ableg
‘Defund the police’ is a cop-out, the words of the privileged. Real solutions to crime and policing take hard work, like Madu showed today. Reform, not defund. That’s what policing needs. That’s what Madu is doing. 7/7 #ableg
