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Report details B.C. First Nation, Vancouver Police Board collaboration breakdown
The officers' refusal to attend a culturally significant apology ceremony has stalled key anti-Indigenous racism reforms, says B.C. Human Rights Commissioner.
- On Feb. 24, 2026, the B.C. Human Rights Commissioner found an impasse blocking a required in-person apology, hindering progress with the Vancouver Police Board and Heiltsuk Nation.
- Following the 2019 incident, the 2022 settlement required an in-person apology `consistent with Indigenous law`, but a 2022 judicial order resulted in written apologies instead.
- Officials noted that training improvements included some cultural-competency updates but did not enhance status-card or `anti-racist responses` training, with Constables Canon Wong and Mitchel Tong backing out of a Bella Bella apology in 2022, the report says.
- Oversight intensified after the Vancouver Police Board and Heiltsuk Tribal Council did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the unresolved apology ceremony, despite the commissioner's report highlighting the impasse.
- The stalled settlement now prevents collaborative-action requirements from addressing systemic anti-Indigenous racism in policing, delaying trust rebuilding, training changes, and the apology ceremony central to Heiltsuk cultural healing.
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Report details B.C. First Nation, Vancouver Police Board collaboration breakdown
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's human rights commissioner says a lack of collaboration between the Vancouver Police Board and First Nations is hampering progress to end anti-Indigenous racism in policing, years
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Report details B.C. First Nation, Vancouver Police Board collaboration breakdown – Energeticcity.ca
VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s human rights commissioner says a lack of collaboration between the Vancouver Police Board and First Nations is hampering progress to end anti-Indigenous racism in policing, years after the handcuffing of a man and his granddaughter put a spotlight on the issue. Maxwell Johnson of the Heiltsuk Nation and his then-12-year-old granddaughter were arrested in 2019 by Vancouver police after a bank manager reported them f…
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