MPs, advocates urge more government action to combat ‘pandemic of anti-Asian racism’

Most MPs and advocates who spoke to The Hill Times connected this resurgence in hate to the COVID-19 pandemic, with Liberal MP Han Dong noting that communities have come together in response.

Vice-president of the National Association of Japanese Canadians Lynn Deutscher Kobayashi says racism often plays on the idea of Asians being untrustworthy foreigners, and she expects a second wave of anti-Asian racism to hit in the wake of the Washington insurrection. Photograph courtesy of Lynn Deutscher Kobayashi

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BY ALICE CHEN

February 24, 2021

Justin Kong, executive director of the Chinese Canadian National Council’s Toronto chapter, doesn’t want focus paid to his own experiences of racism, which he says most racialized people have experienced, instead emphasizing the importance of the country coming together to make things better. H...

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