The police practice of stopping persons to ask them about their activities will be stopped by the provincial government. The decision comes a day after the Legislature approved an NDP motion calling for carding to end. Carding has been the source of rancorous criticism from groups that say police discriminate against black people and that many more blacks than other races are stopped. The police have always said that carding was colour-blind and that it merely occurred where crime occurred. In recent years police chiefs have said that carding is a useful tool in fighting crime. The new Toronto Chief Mark Saunders is among these. The chief of the Peel Regional Police Jennifer Evans last month defied municipal council when instructed to stop carding. Now the Liberal government has ended all carding anywhere in Ontario.
