Back in June, in an ep. of #PartyLines, in the context of discussing policing, I said that Ontario had stopped police carding. When said it, I was citing this story from 2017, about a new rule that bans carding: cbc.ca/news/canada/to…. But this is, in fact, not true. Hang on:
I was under the impression that the ruling had ended carding. That was my bad. As soon as a year after the ruling, there were questions about the implementation vs the actual reality of whether carding has actually stopped: cbc.ca/news/canada/to…
At the end of 2018, Court of Appeal Justice Michael Tulloch prepared a report saying carding should end because it is not effective. It was still going on at that time. thestar.com/news/gta/2018/…
The same report pushed the conversation further in 2019, too: toronto.citynews.ca/2019/01/04/ont…
And @DesmondCole pointed out to me that the police have to yet to clarify what happens when someone gets stopped now and the police run their name. Are the police able to see previous carding interactions?
As Desmond points out, if police still have all the data they've already collected, can we conclude that carding is over? I should've given a lot more context on that episode back in June. Hope this clarifies it 🙏🏾
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