Someone Call the Cops on Justin Trudeau's Public Safety Minister Pick

It’s been a hell of a ride, but Bill Blair’s redemption story is complete.

The former Toronto police chief, pushed out of the job just four years ago, is now Canada’s minister of public safety.

It’s a nearly-unfathomable return to form for Blair, who faced criticism from all sides for his handling of the infamous G20 summit, held in Toronto in June 2010. Reviews found that Toronto Police, under Blair’s leadership, conducted random street checks, detained more than 1,000 protesters for up to 24 hours in make-shift camps, used arbitrary strip searches, amongst other Charter violations. Blair also continued, and defended, the practise of demanding identification from otherwise law-abiding, predominantly non-white, Torontonians as well—carding.

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