Canadian Jurisdictions: Canadian Police Information Centre

Canadian Police Information Centre: That this is even an issue comes as a result of the persistence of Sarah Rana. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. Apparently, policing practices in at least some Canadian jurisdictions provide for the use of only two racial descriptors: "white" or "non-white." Rana is not just unhappy about the fact that race was made to figure at all in a routine traffic infraction, but also that she was not constructed as South Asian. Can any body be Canadian? At least in terms of nationwide policing practices, the answer to this question depends on whether the Canadian Police Information Centre hears one particular member of their advisory board at the groups January meeting in Ottawa. A Waterloo native, Rana received a traffic ticket last year for running a red light. Only after deciding to contest the ticket did Rana discover that the ticketing officer racially constructed her as "non-white" in the records of the Waterloo Regional Police Service. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.