The new strategy lays out 132 actions that City of Ottawa departments have already committed to, and it comes after more than a year of consultation with 1,000 residents and city employees.
For instance, the city will look at communicating election material in multiple languages, and will update its appointment policy to improve representation on its boards and at its agencies. The strategy also sets out how the city can better support community organizations to give people more access to housing and health care, and to engage youth in high-priority neighbourhoods.
The finance and economic development committee approved the plan on Tuesday and it goes to full city council for approval on June 22. Rideau-Rockcliffe Coun. Rawlson King, seen at a city meeting in April, has been a key piece of creating the anti-racism strategy.City manager Steve Kanellakos said "we heard things we don't like to hear" during the months of conversations that led up to the strategy, such as staff members sharing experiences with racism in the workplace.
Defund CBC for slanted news dividing the country. The Canadian CNN.
Perhaps it could start with the racism of our Inuit women living on our city streets and being forced into sex trade. Take a walk around our touristy Byward Market. Someone on every corner😡
So more bureaucracy
Wanna know how to stop racism? STOP CALLING EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING RACIST! FFS
What racism?
The only systemic racism in Canada is against white men.
Pure definition of gaslighting. People should be considered based on merit NOT on skin colour. In the employment, govt appointments and other promotion areas. Pure BS! Merit counts not how dark ur melanin is.
Fake News ! DefundCBC
Bunch of total B S !
Is Justin Blackface Trudeau in trouble?
Equality is a major Bedrock of communistic thought. This is Marxist dialect being used
This comment section just proves racism still exist🤣
this bullshit need to go
Racism is based on upbringing, geography and individual experiences. How do you convert someone who has been marginalized by another race? It’s like painting popcorn, it doesn’t alter much but it’s something to do. cdnpoli
Ok, what does an anti- policy look like? Seriously? Were the 5% of black people in Ottawa not given access to CERB, the vaccine, garbage collection? Adopting 'intersectional, trauma-focused and systems-wide approach to anti-racism'. Another 're-education' program we pay for?
Not an issue in Canada
You lost me at, “the city will look at communicating election material in multiple languages…”. Is having a grasp of English no longer a requirement in Canada? It certainly appears French is required in Quebec. Also: is there any point to Caucasians applying for anything?
This type of thing has to be so careful as to not become patronizing, and assuming POC require help even if they don’t. And unfortunately this article seems made too soon, before any concrete announcements can tell us what the policies really are.
Race grifters everywhere drumming up fake work.
Gaslighting
I’m a minority and I feel equal. What’s the problem?
Irony
When you apply for a job now I feel like I’m being discriminated against because of the 10 different gender options and telling people my race. Judge by merit not by identity
Prop up one race while trying to tear down another isn’t inclusive
Time to be overtly racist to fight against the racism that no one can see or feel but is secretly everywhere
Look how many people got 6 figure salary on the tax payer expense. And all it took was 1 graffiti. This is how we end poverty - useless government jobs
Interesting that no specific justification for the move was provided, except that boards and appointments should reflect the demographic of the city...seemingly ignoring that Ottawa is 74% white. I say this as a BIPOC.
Omg really
Seeking solutions to problems that don’t exist…
Sure they want to start by firing straight white guys! Or at least never hire them again!