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Flashback to 1972: Pierre Elliott Trudeau was prime minister, Queen Elizabeth II was monarch, The Godfather was the highest-grossing movie, and Don McLean’s American Pie was the top song in Canada. It was also the year Michael Turner, a young Black man, would embark on his career in Canada’s federal public service . Two years later, Turner would get promoted to office auditor while working at the Department of National Revenue.
“Canada’s human rights watchdog discriminated against populations that it’s responsible for protecting. Workplace discrimination can have catastrophic, profound and lasting effects on employees and their families,” said PSG Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard , in a statement last December. Betchi, also a former CHRC employee who filed a complaint against the organization, said she saw first hand how the commission would dismiss race-based complaints—something that the Senate report backs up with data.
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