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Downtown Halifax: Dhunna and Immigrants

downtown halifax: I just told him very politely, sir, next time when you take a cab, please put a mask on', and he started saying, go back to where you came from', says Dhunna, according to CTV. Dhunna says the passenger responded by lashing out, using offensive language and racial slurs and telling Dhunna to go back where he came from'. So I told him, you can go, you can get away from my car now', and he said that immigrants are taking our jobs away'. I said, I am a Canadian citizen, and we still need immigrants, Canada still needs immigrants', recalls Dhunna. Kuldip Dhunna says he was driving a passenger to a hotel in downtown Halifax on Thursday, when the passenger began coughing. The encounter was caught on Dhunna's dashcam. Another daughter, Simran, posted it to Twitter, where it has nearly 200,000 views in less than 48 hours. His daughter Shivani shared it on her Instagram page, where it has been viewed over 50,000 times. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.