Research based in the US and Britain have established that perceptions of the police are particularly low among youth and racialized communities. However, by contrast, little is known about racialized youth perceptions of the police within Canada. Due to formal and informal bans on the collection of race-based data, Canada maintains its international reputation as a tolerant multicultural society. Using the critical race methodology of composite counter-storytelling, this paper will highlight the perspectives of Black and Indigenous youth and explore their experiences with law enforcement. This aims to counter Canada’s international status as a multicultural utopia and demonstrate how legal criminal justice actors, such as the police, perpetuate the marginalized status of Black and Indigenous youth through the process of criminalization.

美国和英国的研究表明，在年轻人和种族社区中，对警察的认识特别低。但是，相比之下，对于加拿大境内年轻人对警察的种族化认识知之甚少。由于正式和非正式禁止收集基于种族的数据，加拿大保持了其作为宽容的多元文化社会的国际声誉。本文使用综合反叙事的关键种族方法，重点介绍了黑人和土著青年的观点，并探讨了他们在执法方面的经验。这旨在抵制加拿大作为多元文化乌托邦的国际地位，并表明合法的刑事司法行为者（例如警察）如何通过刑事定罪过程使黑人和土著青年的边缘化地位永久存在。