Senators want to grill cabinet ministers on government’s response to fighting anti-Black, anti-Indigenous racism

Another motion in the Senate would strike a new committee to examine where the federal government and other organizations have succeeded, and failed, at acting on previous recommendations that could have reduced racism against Black and Indigenous people in Canada.

Senators Marie-Françoise Mégie, left, Wanda Bernard, and Frances Lankin were involved with drafting and introducing motions in the Senate on June 16 that would put the government's response to racism in Canada under the microscope. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade, photograph courtesy of Senator Wanda Bernard

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

June 16, 2020

A group of Senators is calling for Liberal ministers to testify in the Red Chamber about the government’s role in fighting anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism. Independent Senator Marie-Françoise Mégie (Rougemont, Que.) ...

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