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• Victims of racial profiling, primarily Black men, experience post-traumatic stress
and other stress-related disorders that limit their use of community resources
61
• A United Nations working group on issues affecting Black people has
signaled an alarm about the poverty, poor health, low educational attainment
and overrepresentation of African Canadians in systems such as justice and
child welfare
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Social and economic inclusion cannot be fully achieved until the
root causes of systemic racism are addressed.
What does all of this tell us?
Those experiencing poverty are not a homogeneous group and
certain populations are at greater risk of living in poverty and may
experience vulnerabilities as a result of poverty and low income. A
one-size-fits-all approach is not going to achieve the best outcomes.
The system needs to be flexible and able to adapt to people’s
diverse and changing needs. We must pay particular attention to
the cause and depth of poverty among Indigenous, Black and other
marginalized populations to ensure interventions are structured to
target the barriers they face and track the outcomes to know if the
interventions are working.
61 Ontario Human Rights Commission Paying the Price: The human cost of racial
profiling. http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/paying-price-human-cost-racial-profiling/
effects-racial-profiling
62 Toronto Star article by Nicholas Keung, “Canada chided for treatment of
black people by UN group”, Nov 2, 2016 : https://wwwthestarcom/news/
immigration/2016/11/02/canada-chided-for-treatment-of-black-people-by-ungrouphtml
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