Racialized Groups: Border Crossings and Health Care

racialized groups: Concerns about racial profiling are broader than policing, the report says, according to Metro News. Racialized and Indigenous peoples may experience unwarranted heightened scrutiny in education, stores, shopping malls, housing and workplaces, on buses, subways and trains, at airports and border crossings, in health care and by private security and child welfare agencies. While police encounters remain a common situation where racialized groups have experienced profiling, respondents reported being targeted because of their race in a broad range of contexts, the Ontario Human Rights Commission writes in its new report Under Suspicion, released Wednesday. The report is based on consultations and survey results from 1,650 individuals and organizations, gleaning wide-ranging personal experiences of racial profiling and data shedding light on the places and scenarios in which the phenomenon occurs. The commission states that the individual reports of racial profiling have not been independently verified and that it cannot determine with certainty that they stem from discrimination. The survey, conducted in the summer of 2015, was not meant to capture the average Ontarian's experience; rather, it draws from a non-random sample, specifically targeting members of the indigenous, racialized and Muslim communities, as well as experts in human rights, academia and law. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.