Stockwell Day resigns from Telus board, law firm after racism remarks
A former Conservative cabinet minister resigned from both the Telus board of directors and a business law firm after comments he made on TV about racism in Canada.
Soon after, Teresa Dufort, partner and CEO at McMillan LLP, released a statement saying the law firm had accepted Day’s resignation as a strategic adviser. Floyd, 46, died after Derek Chauvin, a white policeman, knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes on May 25. “It is a time to pull people together but it is a time to listen, it is a time to learn what injustices continue despite progress over years and decades. But it is a time for us as Canadians to recognize that we, too, have our challenges.”
Day said that while there are a “few idiot racists” in Canada, he believes most Canadians are not racist. He did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday. He added that Canadians should be more sensitive about “hurting or insulting people,” whether or not they are being racist.
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