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Multicultural Must Read: Anti-racism strategy talks behind closed doors

10/22/2018

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South Asian English: Canada consulting on national anti-racism strategy behind closed doors

A South Asian English daily source from Mississauga, The Pavarsi Daily, reports:
The federal government is consulting experts and community leaders ahead of a new national anti-racism strategy, but in a series of secretive meetings to avoid them turning into public shouting matches. Four meetings have already been held — all in southern Ontario — and another 19 are to take place nationwide before the end of the year. However, the government is not publicizing who attended, who will be at future meetings or even where those meetings are taking place. Participation is by invitation only. There are still Canadian communities where people face systemic racism, oppression and discrimination, Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez said. The minister has not, however, directly explained why he told The Globe and Mail newspaper earlier this week that systemic racism was not “part of his vocabulary” and that Canada was not in fact a racist society. New Democrat MP Jenny Kwan asked Rodriguez this week multiple times in the House of Commons to explain and apologize for his comment, to which Rodriguez only said racism does exist in Canada. Last February, an anti-racism town hall hosted in Toronto by several Liberal MPs and members of the Ontario legislature ended up with a call to police. It was derailed by a number of people Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith says were white supremacists bent on shouting down speakers demanding a definition of Islamophobia.
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