Canadian Forces: Members and Wallace Fowler

canadian forces: They claim they were subjected to verbal taunts, racial epithets and insults to family members including one incident in which someone threw bananas at a black member's spouse on the base in Esquimalt, B.C. The suit, filed by Marc Frenette, Wallace Fowler and Jean-Pierre Robillard on Dec. 14, accuses superior officers of brushing off the behaviour by silencing the wrongs and urging some members not to file complaints, according to Metro News. From top to bottom, the Canadian Forces has failed to protect racial minorities and aboriginal people from racism within the ranks, the 31-page document states. The former members have filed a proposed class action lawsuit against the military in Federal Court in Halifax. Derogatory slurs, racial harassment and violent threats are tolerated or ignored .... Victims of racism within the Canadian Forces are forced into isolation, subjected to further trauma and, in many cases, catapulted toward early release. He alleges that led to racial slurs, rejected requests for leave and training, physical abuse and insults about his heritage. Frenette, a 39-year-old from Ontario, claims his career in aircraft maintenance with the Snowbirds 431 squadron was going well until colleagues in Moose Jaw, Sask., discovered he is aboriginal. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.