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A report examining workplace racism at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) describes repeated instances of employees and supervisors using offensive terms with their racialized colleagues.
The 20-page document, compiled by the public opinion research company Pollara Strategic Insights, was presented to IRCC in June and recently posted online.
The report is based on ten two-hour focus groups with 54 IRCC employees Pollara conducted for the department in March.
Multiple employees told Pollara they’d heard racist language used in the workplace. The report describes
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