OTTAWA—Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said racism is entrenched among the country’s law-enforcement institutions, chief among them the Royal Canadian Mounted Police—something the agency’s commissioner was reluctant to say in a series of interviews this week. The statements on Thursday were arguably the furthest the Canadian leader has gone to say that indigenous people and other minorities are treated unfairly by the national police force, whose roughly 20,000 officers serve communities across the country.

Source: Wall Street Journal June 11, 2020 19:41 UTC