While Premier Wynne and Minister Coteau have made a public commitment to address racism in all its forms - stated in the ARD Mandate Letter as «
Combat Systemic Racism Including, but Not Limited to, Indigenous Racism, Anti-Black Racism and Islamophobia» - the Government has not yet released any concrete strategy nor has it developed the necessary statutory framework to support the work of the Directorate.
While the protest started by Kaepernick aimed to
combat systemic racism and police brutality, the second wave of solidarity in September came under the branding of «unity.»