The RCMP Against Homosexuals

RCMP who was ensnared in a love triangle, entailed in the scandal; an RCMP who was tried and

The Mackenzie commission was created by the liberal government. The Commission served two purposes, to ensure the legitimacy of the RCMP’s practices, and a second unannounced purpose, to improve the service’s efficiency. The investigation of the RCMP’s SIS was concluded with 4 recommendations. To improve political control, it was suggested to create an independent service without police powers, and the minister of security should play a role in the management of this new service to ensure there are clear operational et juridical limits. The recommendations made to improve the services efficiency, were, to provide university education to agents, so they may be better equipped to identify important information, and finally to include civilians with expertise in different domains to assist when needed.

Canada has a long history of policing and keeping up with the changing times; starting with the Dominion of Canada in 1867 to present time. As Canada evolved as a Nation so did the Police forces of Canada. The first Police force in Canada was 1868 the “Dominion Police Force”; it was federal in nature and its main responsibility was to take care of the federal buildings in Ottawa. With increasing guidance and control needed their jurisdiction extended to policing of central and eastern parts of Canada. As Canada expanded to the west and Northwest Territories, Prime Minister Macdonald created North West Mounted Police (NWMP) in May of 1873 due to the Mets uprising and to control the whisky trade. The Metis uprising was due to the push of settlers

Question: Why does the RCMP relationship with Aboriginal peoples continue to decline? Are there any historical ties that have developed this relationship? Is it possible to have a mutual relationship where Aboriginal people and the RCMP can cooperate and work with one another?

In a recent podcast regarding a transgender high school student being forced to change in the nurse’s office instead of in the locker room with other students addressed the controversy regarding the treatment of members of our society who identify as LGBTQ. Throughout the podcast, multiple individuals have voiced support for the school’s decision to isolate the transgender student when changing. Do to the opinions voiced in the podcast regarding this case, I realized that the treatment of the high school student is only one example of the existing discrimination towards those who identify as LGBTQ. As such, I intend to explore the controversy of LGBTQ and our obligations that we have as members of the same society. Throughout this paper, I

media had labeled it as a gay disease. Based upon the statistics compiled by the Center for

The RCMP is Canada’s national police service; it deals with national, federal, provincial and municipal policing issues, plus dealing with international policing. They

Humans have been fighting and challenging each other ever since they have been created. People tend to think that if someone else is different than another person must be weird, stupid, or even dangerous. Though things are constantly getting better and people are beginning to be more accepting of each other some people continue to hate and cast out just because they do not have the same beliefs, sexuality, or even the same looks. The fire department has been on the business side, but people in the fire department the workers can be harmful bullies. This is not the fire departments fault but the workers that are fire fighters tend to be on the conservative side when it comes to the human rights division of life.

Throughout the past twelve weeks of taking Women and Gender studies, I have learned extensive amounts of information and will be able to take all of the ideas and concepts learned into action outside of the classroom. Each class, we had various conversations about what was going on in the world around us and how that affects each and every one of us. With the knowledge that I now have, I feel as if I am a much better citizen in Canada since I acquire the knowledge of the history in Canada and the conditions of women’s lives, and also how factors such as race, class, and sexual orientation come into play in daily life. In class, we talked about oppression very often which is, unjust treatment of control. Oppression is a major issue in Canadian society and has many aspects to it. One of the most important pieces of information that I got from taking this course was how destructive power systems function to maintain their

This prolonged hold on investigating by the RCMP appears to be racially charged, the women were all of indigenous decent, regarding the current relationship between the Canadian government and the indigenous community some institutionalize prejudice can be drawn. (Hannon, n.d.) not creating this investigation to be nation wide displays that indigenous people are not held to the same standards as the other citizens of Canada, a prejudice that has been in existence within the Residential

Families were worried that if their child was exposed to homosexuality, or were themselves gay, that their morals would be tarnished and they would embark towards promiscuous behaviour. Books were given to teens providing advice on how to reach “normality”. They were trying to scare kids into believing that heterosexuality was the only option and anything otherwise was not normal. They also wanted to guilt the children into believing that being gay would not only ostracize yourself, but would also shame your family. Families would tell their children that they needed to be heterosexual to defend Canada. They would also use examples from Canadian society as per what would happen if they did end up gay. Examples like how the

Hate crime is a motivated violent act by a group or individual perpetrator towards a specific race, colour or religion (Collins, Pg 93,192). For many years, authority figures and the media have ignored hate crime offences towards individuals who identify under the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) umbrella. Up until the 20th century and prior to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, LGBTQ persons have been victimized in violent crimes based solely on gender identification and orientation. With a myriad of events, cases and unreported individual incidents the burden of proof towards hate crime on LQBTQ increased. The development of North American law towards LGBTQ citizens has improved throughout the last two decades. However, there

In the US everyone says we’re free, but are we? What about the black man afraid to walk down the street with his hood up, hoping he isn’t stopped by the police again? The gay teen that is bullied so badly that he is brought to the thought of death. Or the man wearing a turban being called a terrorist for following a religion? Injustice is still around today, maybe more than ever. Homophobia, Racism, and Police Brutality have led to crimes, arrests, and even death. These are injustices that need to be addressed and take care of.

In this Gays and lesbians deserve equal protection against the hate crimes that happen in the world. Aren't we told as young children and also throughout life to treat others as we would want to be treated? So why are some decimated against based on sexual preference? The statistics show the percentages of the hate discrimination against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual community. The violence that they are pitted against, due to people's discrimination against them, in life. And I will also mention the discrimination that the LGBT community goes through and what they miss out based on sexual preference.

​Canada is often seen as a leader in the gay rights movement and it has a long history of providing rights to those that identify as homosexual (BC Teachers’ Federation, 2016; Cotler, 2015). As far back as 1969, Prime Minister Trudeau passed Bill C-150 which amended the Criminal Code to decriminalize “gross indecency” and “buggery”; if committed between two consenting adults if they are over 21 (BC Teachers’ Federation, 2016). The Code was further amended to drop the age of consent for anal sex from 18 and 14 for other sexual activity and it was recognized that a higher age for consent of anal sex was unconstitutional (BC Teachers’ Federation, 2016). Since then there have been many changes to the political and social system in Canada to be able to improve the rights not only individuals whom are part of the LGBTQ community, but also for those whom are in same sex relationships (BC Teachers’ Federation, 2016). As of 2005, same-sex marriage was legalized in Canada; however, there is still debate of whether or not same-sex legalization has legitimized same-sex partnerships within society (Colter, 2015). Many cases that have come before the court regarding homosexuality and same-sex marriages have argued that the actions of society are a direct violation of people’s s.15 rights in the Constitution; which allows for every person to be treated equally and bear the freedom of religion (Supreme Court Judgements, 2004). It will be argued that Canada has created equal rights for