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The Quebec government has rejected a package of race-based federal funding, declaring that they don’t accept the notion of “systemic racism” underlying it.

Starting in 2021, the government of then prime minister Justin Trudeau earmarked $6.64 million for a new federal program for Impact of Race and Culture Assessments. These were reports designed to secure lighter sentences for Black criminals in order to counteract “systemic racism in the criminal justice system,” as a federal backgrounder put it .

But Quebec’s justice department has consistently sent back its share of the funding, and told The Canadian Press in an email this week that “Quebec doesn’t subscribe to the approach on which the funding program is based, namely systemic racism.”

Since at least 2020, the Governme

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