It’s not just the layers of history & systemic racism or how immediate & close to the surface the threat is...it’s how easily white people with power can deliberately unleash hate & how instantly it finds victims. Our desire to be a mob with pitch forks & torches is frightening/1 https://twitter.com/shreeparadkar/status/1278335154411450368

Whether it’s a migrant farmworker keeping us fed, a refugee who walked across the border and now keeps a seniors home working, an immigrant doctor caring for a rural community or a personal support caregiver providing individual care to neighbour in need there is a pattern here/2

Too many in Canada are assigned transactional status by the state. As good and as beautiful as this country is & can be, it isn’t joy for all. Built on a colonial practise of theft & slavery. Canada is set up so that some are citizens while others only exist as part of a “deal”/3