Black Public Employees Suing Government For Alleged Systemic Discrimination

OTTAWA — Alain Babineau recalls the discriminatory hurdles he faced trying to join the RCMP in the early 1980s, including a question in his first interview about what he would do if called a word notorious for its overt racism against Black people.Those racist undertones followed him, though, once he became a Mountie. His story isn’t unique, he said in an interview Friday, pointing to other federal public servants, past and present, who have faced similar barriers in their caree