‘It’s a lot of lip service’: Black federal public servants hope ‘Floyd effect’ will finally drive change as anti-racism movement grips Canada
Fifteen per cent of Black federal employees indicated they had been a victim of discrimination on the job in the past 12 months, compared to only eight per cent of the public service, overall, according to last year's Public Service Employee Survey.
Black public servants, already more likely to report being victims of racial discrimination than the rest of the federal bureaucracy, are hoping the “Floyd effect” will help drive the changes for which they’ve spent years trying to gain traction.
“In some ways, this has had a positive effec...
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