The document discusses various examples of discrimination in Canada: 1. A study found that over 30% of visible minorities reported experiencing discrimination. South Asian hockey players also faced racism, with some being called racial slurs on the ice. 2. An indigenous patient recounted a traumatic experience with a specialist physician who told them to "get over" the impacts of residential schools and grabbed them, saying their pain was just "skin." 3. The Canadian government is accused of systemic discrimination against Black public servants, denying them employment and promotions for decades in violation of international law. 4. A gay father filed a human rights complaint alleging discrimination over access to fertility drugs for surrogacy, facing additional costs compared

1. Discrimination
Is it true?
We don’t discrimination like the US
Eva

2. What is discrimination
● An action or a decision that is treating some people
differently from others
● Eg:
- People are paid different wages
- Not accepted just because of their race

3. Discrimination in Canada (present)
● “Just over a third (38.2%) of respondents aged 15 or older reported
having experienced discrimination at some point before or since the
pandemic.
● “In 2020, more than 38 percent of
women and nearly 32 percent of
men from visible minorities reported
having experienced discrimination.”

4. South Asian hockey
players in Lower
Mainland face
racism, other barriers
to participation:
study finds

5. ● South Asians within the sport consistently faced discrimination
in the form of racism
● Being called the ‘n-word’ on ice
● According to Jeff Wales, players will inform them that
something discriminatory was said, but would rather forget
about it
● Parents creating their own training programmes to have a
setting free from discrimination

6. “It was just weird to make sense of that. One would think that
whenever we call anybody the ‘n-word,’ that’s pretty clear-cut
racism,” Szto said. “But when it takes place on the ice in that
context, the assumption was ‘well other teams are supposed to
hate us, they’re supposed to get us off our game, and anything
they do is technically is fair game.’”
“

7. Systemic or Individual
● Systemic
- Not just a few people discrimination south
Asian Canadians on the ice, lots of people
do so. Also, when South Asian players want
to play more competitive hockey,
opportunities become limited
Which part of the
Canadian Charter of
Rights did this violate?
● Legal rights
- Life liberty and security of the
asian people in ice
Changes ● Just last month, hate crimes against asian has
increased (once more)

8. 'Hate-motivated
assault': Man
arrested after
spitting, yelling at
Asian family in
Victoria

9. ● An officer saw
○ a shirtless man yell and motion aggressively towards a
man and his child
● Spitting at an Asian woman and her four children near Quadra
elementary
● Hate-motivated assault
● Tuesday afternoon, May 4, 2021

10. "The man spat at the family, narrowly missing a child, and
yelled racial slurs regarding the family’s Asian ethnicity,"
said VicPD in a release Wednesday.
“

11. Systemic or Individual
● Individual
- This is only that one man that is discriminating
them
- There maybe more people like him but they are
not under an organization nor are they a group.
Just scattered people

12. Which part of the Canadian
Charter of Rights did this violate?
● Legal rights
- Life liberty and security of the asian family
Changes
● Just last month, hate crimes against asian has
increased (once more)
● This man’s action is now illegal

13. A qualitative exploration
of Indigenous patients'
experiences of racism and
perspective on improving
cultural safety within
health care

14. ● Indigenous Peoples continue to experience persistent health
inequities
○ disproportionately poorer health outcomes
● Study shows
○ Experience of racism ➡️ poor care experience ➡️ health
outcomes
○ To solve this issue
- Receiving culturally safe care ➡️ improving
trust in the health care system & well-being

15. “Once, [the specialist physician] was talking about residential
school and he told me ‘why don’t you just get over it?’ I was
explaining to him how much body pain I was experiencing …
and he charged right at me and grabbed me and said, ‘What is
this? … That’s skin and we all have it. You need to toughen
up!’”
“

16. Systemic or Individual ● Systemic
- This is practically the whole health care
system that is discriminating against the
First Nations.
Which part of the
Canadian Charter of
Rights did this violate?
● Legal rights
- Life, liberty and security of the
First Nations people
Changes
● Not much changes. Just a day ago, a priest was
charged in alleged sexual assault of 8-year-old girl on
Manitoba First Nation

17. Canadian
government
discriminated
against Black public
service workers

18. ● After Black Class Action Secretariat submitted a complaint to
the UN arguing the FGC has systematically discriminated
against & excluded Black Canadian public service workers ➡️
the FG started to push for the courts to …
○ dismiss a class action lawsuit related to the accusations
!?!?
↳ Denied employment and promotions for decades
○ government has failed to protect them from anti-Black
racism in the workforce.
● The complaint calls on the UN to hold Canada
● accountable for failing to follow international law.

19. “Our members can readily recount instances of name-calling
and racial slurs in the workplace, of not being hired or never
being promoted, and always being excluded from the basic
human rights in the workplace,” Thompson said
“

20. Systemic or Individual
● Systemic
- In the title it says “Canadian government
discriminate against” thus it has to be systemic.
Changes
● As of February 15th 2023 the government of Canada
is working with black communities to develop
Canada's black Justice

21. Which part of the Canadian
Charter of Rights did this violate?
● Equality rights
- Being treated differently under the law
● Fundamental freedom - Freedom of expression
- Basically the country dismiss a lawsuit related to
the accusations. Whether to escape the problem
or hide the problem, with this done, they are
limiting the freedom of expression on the Blacks.

22. Gay father-to-be files
human rights
complaint alleging
IVF discrimination

23. ● Greg Mountenay has filed a human rights complaint
against
1. the OTIP because he says the IVF policy doesn’t
cover drugs for a surrogate ➡️ discriminates gay
1. alleging discrimination over sexual orientation and
gender identity
● He filed an appeal with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ont
Mountenay ➡️ "lack of a uterus" ➡️ they could NEVER
access > $18k in fertility drugs

24. ● Familiar position for male same-sex couples
● To date they've spent more than $20,000 to be fathers.
● Abortion Provincial funding helped them save upwards of
$3800, but it's < 20% of what they've spent so far in medication
and other related costs.
● Solution: talk to a human rights lawyer

25. Mountenay said the arduous process has made it difficult to
teach his students about equity when he feels he's been subject
to a lack of fairness, but he has refused to let the cost stop
him.
“

26. Systemic or Individual
● Systemic
- This problem is faced by many other male same-
sex couples, if this were individual, the amount
of people experiencing this will be way less.
- This is also a problem that involves the
government.

27. Which part of the Canadian
Charter of Rights did this violate?
● Equality rights
- They are not getting equal benefits
Changes
● Not much has changed. Just 10 days ago there was an
article titled “NDP note rise of lgbtq2s plus hate in
Canada”

28. Personal experience
Teacher favour the challenge kids more than non
challenge kids. You can see “teacher’s fav” are mostly
challenge kids. (Eg: in yearbook and leadership)