Transport Canada has suspended six employees without pay for spreading a racist email at work more than a decade ago, following a CBC News story last year that triggered an internal investigation.
The department's probe found 10 workers shared an Islamophobic parody song called "Strangers on my Flight," set to the tune of a Frank Sinatra number, between 2006 and 2010. The spoof song features derogatory lyrics based on racial stereotypes about travellers wearing turbans and mentions harming travellers with baseball bats.
In a memo sent to all staff on Tuesday, the department's deputy minister Michael Keenan and associate deputy minister Arun Thangaraj said that while the email was sent years ago, its distribution amounted to an act of "systemic racism that had a negative impact on our workplace and the public's confidence in Transport Canada's ability to operate without bias."
Hope you didnt do a wrong think decades ago or the newly Canadians will go through company emails and get you fired.
More than ever, company lawyers need to ensure documents and emails are purged after hold requirements have surpassed. The liability of cancel culture is too great.
Hope you didnt do a wrong think decades ago or the newly Canadians will go through company emails and get you fired.
More than ever, company lawyers need to ensure documents and emails are purged after hold requirements have surpassed. The liability of cancel culture is too great.
Systematic racism means white people are evil and are who I am accusing.