Two years after its announcement, the line isn't connected
It sounds like the start of a bad joke about government incompetence, but it’s a legitimate question that came up in the legislature recently after it was revealed that an anti-racism hotline promised by the province more than two years ago still isn’t complete.“I honestly don’t understand why it takes this long,” said BC United critic Teresa Wat during recent budget estimates.
“Even more concerning is that some people may be reluctant to report incidents through existing avenues like calling the police, which may mean we have an under-reporting of the scope of the problem. This hotline will lower the barrier for reporting incidents, helping us better direct further action and be more rapid in our responses.”The need is still there, even as the pandemic has dissipated, argued Wat.
In 2021, it was Parliamentary Secretary for Anti-Racism Initiatives Rachna Singh and Attorney General David Eby spearheading the idea. “We are committed to launching that hotline,” Sharma said in her budget estimates recently. “We want to make sure that it's useful and that it's directing people to the right place and that it's meeting the needs of community, which is the work that's currently underway right now.”
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