COVID-19 and African Canadians: a festering, unresolved problem

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should establish, this June, a committee under the Inquiries Act to study the various systemic problems in Canada that make African Canadians more vulnerable to COVID-19.

Former Nova Scotia Senator Donald Oliver says the prime minister should also establish a new federal government Department of Diversity headed by an eminently qualified African Canadian.The Hill Times file photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY Donald Oliver

May 18, 2020

PLEASANT RIVER, N.S.—COVID-19 has bluntly shown all of us that African-Canadian front-line essential workers have been disproportionally affected with this highly contagious and deadly virus, even without supporting comprehensive scientific data.

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