Advocate lauds feds for soliciting expert views in guiding COVID-19 relief measures for vulnerable Canadians

'We would like the police to initiate hate-crime investigations and work with prosecution to ensure that those are followed up. And if charges are not laid, we want the police to tell us why they are not laid,' says Amy Go, interim president of the Chinese Canadian National Council for Social Justice.

Diversity Minister Bardish Chagger, pictured in October 2017, held a town hall last month with groups to discuss the rise of anti-Asian and anti-Chinese sentiments throughout the pandemic.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY PALAK MANGAT

June 9, 2020

The federal government set up a taskforce in March that is co-chaired by the anti-racism secretariat to “inform” talks at the assistant deputy and deputy minister levels, a measure one expert says expands the dialogue beyond bureaucrats to guide the development of ...

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