Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Pak-Kei Wong couldn’t always tell when he was the victim of racism.
He often questioned if he was a victim of bad luck or circumstance. Anti-Asian racism was hard to discern, he said, let alone prove.
But that changed three years ago, after the first known infections were discovered in Wuhan, China. Wong, who lives in Montreal, says he was told to “go home” by a driver of a passing car, was lectured by a cashier at the supermarket for using “dirty” cash, and just a few months ago, was spit at and threatened by a man on a train.
It was when other members of the
