Black leaders and scholars are renewing their calls for Ottawa to make a formal apology for the country's history of slavery
More than a year after Canada proclaimed Aug. 1 as Emancipation Day, and its intergenerational harms.
In the colony of New France — which became British territory in the 1760s — the majority of slaves were Indigenous, historians say. "There can't be any other explanation except that this is a specific form of anti-Black racism," Cooper said in an interview. "Black people are not seen as fully-fledged citizens and it's the federal government's way of saying, 'Too bad.'"
"The mindset, the beliefs have been left in place," she said. "We continue to face prejudice and discrimination and longtime disparities, and the government has really done little to nothing to change that."
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