For a government so politically correct it borders on comedy, the Trudeau Liberals find themselves in yet another controversy concerning race.
This time, the Support for Black Canadian Communities Initiative is at the centre of the drama. Federal officials sent an email last week rejecting hundreds of organizations that applied for funding. Their email informed some Black community leaders that their organizations are not Black enough to qualify.
Specifically, the initiative disqualified some Black groups on the grounds that they weren’t satisfactorily “led and governed by people who self-identify as Black.” According to the Toronto Star, the pool of rejected applicants includes Operation Black Vote, which is operated by a team of Black Canadians and supports the election of Black people.
Department officials retracted the initial rejection letter a day later, but community leaders weren’t persuaded by a second letter’s alternative explanation that applications were rejected because of missing information.
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