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Umer Shahid: Hardbite Chips and Asian Supervisor

umer shahid: Cousineau made the point in her reasons for decision in connection with a complaint, according to Georgia Asian. The complaint was filed by a black woman against a supposedly ethnically diverse company in Surrey. Racism can clearly operate between groups of people who are racialized in Canada, states tribunal member Devyn Cousineau. Christine Lado, originally from South Sudan, has claimed that she was singled out for public criticism and unfair scrutiny because of her race. The discrimination allegedly happened in the production site of Naturally Homegrown Foods Ltd., maker of Hardbite chips. Lado alleged that her South Asian supervisor, Umer Shahid, treated other workers better because they are South Asian like him. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.