Heard On The Hill

Minister, MP recount how little actions reveal big-picture racism

Liberal MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes and Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen are two of 47 visible-minority MPs that were elected in October 2015. Both recently recounted stories of their experiences with micro-aggressions. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade and file photograph

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BY SHRUTI SHEKAR

December 20, 2017

On Oct. 27, Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen presented a TEDxTalk in Toronto detailing his personal experience of when he first arrived in Canada as a refugee. In the video posted on Youtube on Nov. 27, he detailed his story of being a 16-year-old boy who struggled to put himself ...

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