Lawsuit a clanging wake-up call on anti-Black racism in the public service, but will the feds hear it?

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took a knee at a rally on Parliament Hill against anti-Black racism, but has been slow on following through on the promised change.
On Dec. 2, a dozen Black public servants filed suit in Federal Court, seeking to launch a class action against the government for decades of alleged discrimination and exclusion of Black employees in the federal bureaucracy. “There has been a de facto practice of Black employee exclusi...

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