Racism in Canada’s military / Armée canadienne: enquête militaire à propos d’une diffusion d’images racistes

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Racism in Canada’s military

June 22, 2020

OTTAWA — Canada’s top military and civilian defence officials have apologized for not responding sooner to questions about systemic racism in the Department of National Defence and Canadian Armed Forces.

The apology is in a letter written by Defence Department deputy minister Jody Thomas and chief of defence staff Gen. Jonathan Vance and distributed to troops and Defence Department employees on Friday.

The letter coincides with a wave of anti-racism demonstrations and sentiment in the U.S. and Canada following the killing of an unarmed Black man, George Floyd, in the U.S. by white police officers last month.

Thomas and Vance go on to reveal that military police are investigating reports of a service member spreading anti-Black pictures in Quebec.

They also acknowledge that racism is a real problem many Defence Department and military members experience on a daily basis — and that past efforts to curb it have been unsuccessful.

https://larongenow.com/2020/06/22/ra...s-for-june-22/


Armée canadienne: enquête militaire à propos d’une diffusion d’images racistes

22 juin 2020

OTTAWA — Une enquête a été ouverte au sein des Forces armées canadiennes après qu’aient surgi des allégations de diffusion d’images racistes par un militaire.

Le chef d’état-major de l’Armée, le général Jonathan Vance, et le sous-ministre de la Défense nationale, Jody Thomas, n’ont pas livré de détails sur les allégations, sauf que le militaire visé serait basé au Québec et que les images offensantes concerneraient des personnes de la communauté noire.

https://lactualite.com/actualites/ar...ages-racistes/