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Joel DeBellefeuille is on a mission. The Longueuil resident who won a landmark racial profiling case against that city’s police department has launched a Canada-wide initiative to dismantle systemic discrimination in law enforcement agencies across the country. His petition to Bill Blair Canada’s minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness is asking for the “enacting of legislation to prohibit racial profiling and influence the policing culture in this country, by requiring law enforcement agencies to establish policies and procedures to eliminate it from their practices in order to qualify to receive Federal funding.” It has received approval and is now …