Senators heard from a witness Monday night who called the Canadian Human Rights Commission discriminating against Black and racialized employees a national “disgrace.”
“All of this is unconscionable, a national scandal,” said Rubin “Rocky” Coward, one of several witnesses who appeared before the Senate committee on human rights Monday.
In March, the federal government reported that the Canadian Human Rights Commission had discriminated against its Black and racialized employees. The government’s human resources arm, the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBCS), came to that conclusion after nine employees filed a grievance through their unions in October 2020.
Their grievance alleged that “Black and racialized employees at
