Quebec v. Luamba is a Supreme Court of Canada case currently being heard about whether police can legally stop drivers without any specific suspicion. Quebec’s courts struck down the province’s random stop law after finding it leads to disproportionate stops of Black drivers and violates Charter rights, particularly freedom from arbitrary detention and equality rights. The Supreme Court is now deciding whether that ruling should stand and could reshape how police powers are exercised across Canada.
“In Mr. Luamba’s case, the fact that he’d been repeatedly pulled over for doing nothing wrong demonstrated that it was probably not an issue of the police just stopping people, it was an issue of the colour of his skin…”
