While Canada differs from the US, in that race issues are not as galvanizing as they have been since the days of slavery, our society if not immune from prejudice. I remember the bad old days of Employment Equity (also the years of ‘Rae Days’, the rubber-shoed know-it-all policy wonks and salary freezes that messed up our pensions). I’d competed for and won a promotion. Why? Because I was qualified. But some twit (actually, a middle-aged white guy who came third) commented that I got the job because I was a woman and a ‘woman of colour’ who spoke a bit of French. I wasn’t even offended because he was such an idiot, but it did tick me off to be so disrespected by…
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