Black civil servants’ $900-million proposed class action lawsuit against feds a ‘logical, natural’ next step, says NDP MP Green

'Racism is expensive. Racism costs people who face it, and in a just world, it ought to cost the people who perpetrate it,' says NDP MP Matthew Green.

NDP MP Matthew Green, pictured at a House Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee meeting on July 23, 2020, says that 'within a justice framework, compensation for harm done is something that is considered in every aspect of the law.' The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

December 9, 2020

A proposed class-action lawsuit by 12 former and current Black federal public servants alleging that Black employees have been systematically excluded from advancement and subjected to discrimination within the government for decades is a “logical, natural next step, given that it’s clear that m...

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