Complaints of anti-Black racism at human rights commission to face Senate scrutiny

The Senate will launch a study next week probing complaints of racism at the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC).

Sen. Thomas Bernard, deputy chair of the Red Chamber’s human rights committee, said that ever since CBC News first reported complaints of workplace discrimination made by Black and racialized employees of the CHRC, she’s been hearing from people who have lost trust in the institution.

“Many people who’ve reached out to me to talk about this since the news broke have been saying things like, ‘I’ve lost all confidence,'” she told CBC News.

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

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