As U.S. boils over, calls for Canadian justice ring out in House of Commons GlobePolitics
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh delivers a statement in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill during the COVID-19 pandemic committee in Ottawa on June 2, 2020.Calls to turn anger into action rang out in the House of Commons on Tuesday as politicians embraced pleas to stamp out discrimination in Canada – though outside the House, they disagreed on how deeply the problem is seated.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledged the last thing many people wanted to hear was another speech on racism from a white politician. Ontario Premier Doug Ford played down the notion Canada is struggling with the sort of racism found in the States.“They have their issues in the U.S. and they have to fix their issues, but it’s like night and day comparing Canada and the U.S.”
Blanchet said historical racism has left “traces of odious things in our institutions that colour our relations with people of different origins or people who were here long before us,” though he resists the idea that federal, provincial or municipal governments are racist, or that we are all drawn into systemic discrimination today.
“But it is a time for us as Canadians to recognize that we too have our challenges, that black Canadians and racialized Canadians face discrimination as a lived reality every single day.”
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