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This is what some will have in store for you if they get their "Cancel Culture" ways. Canada!
No record, no allegation, no indictment, no problem! The Stasi will decide who you are, what you can achieve in life and who you must bow to.
I hope they sue their asses and the entire family of the low performing scumbag who added them in the East German system. This is the main reason nobody trusts Canada, do NOT become like us!
www.thestar.com
Josslyn Mounsey and Thairu Taban had done everything right.
They stayed away from trouble while growing up in a couple of Toronto’s poorer neighbourhoods. They studied hard, as their immigrant, Black parents had told them to do, and about a year ago landed “dream” jobs as Metrolinx transit safety dispatchers, with decent pay, benefits and a generous pension plan.
After a rigorous screening process, they swore oaths and reported for work last May at the transit agency’s operations centre in a secret location in Oakville.
“It was liberating,” said Mounsey, 30, and a single mom with three children, to be hired on a 14-month contract, her foot firmly in the door. The “Canadian dream” her parents had spoken of was real. “I just felt like my life is going to begin now.”
For Taban, 24, the first day on the job, his a permanent one, was “amazing.” He remembers thinking of the kids he grew up with and the ones who are younger, and how he could tell them “it’s possible.”
And then, for both, the dream came to a crashing and bewildering end, after both failed a Toronto Police Service background check. They have never been told why.
Neither has a criminal record, but they suspect family connections are behind the decisions, rendered by police as a pass or fail, with no reasons supplied to them or to Metrolinx, in an arrangement that has since ended.
The dream, said Mounsey, now feels like “a crock of bulls---. If police have your name in their system, you’re screwed.”
In late May, Mounsey and Thairu, helped by lawyer Glen Chochla, filed nearly identical applications to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, alleging systemic racism and discrimination in the background check process and their firings, and that the system disproportionately impacts Black people.
It has been widely proven that Black citizens are subject to a higher degree of surveillance and policing techniques, such as street checks, and that they face socio-economic and other barriers that can lead to more involvement in street life, criminal records — and simply knowing people with them.
Neither Metrolinx nor the Toronto Police Services Board, named as respondents in the applications, has filed a response with the tribunal.
Any allegation of discrimination “deeply concerns us,” Metrolinx spokesperson Anne Marie Aikins told the Star in an email.
No record, no allegation, no indictment, no problem! The Stasi will decide who you are, what you can achieve in life and who you must bow to.
I hope they sue their asses and the entire family of the low performing scumbag who added them in the East German system. This is the main reason nobody trusts Canada, do NOT become like us!
Two Black safety dispatchers hired at Metrolinx lost their jobs after failing Toronto police background checks. They have no criminal records
Josslyn Mounsey and Thairu Taban have launched human rights complaints against Metrolinx and the Toronto Police Service alleging systemic racism and discrimination.
www.thestar.com
Josslyn Mounsey and Thairu Taban had done everything right.
They stayed away from trouble while growing up in a couple of Toronto’s poorer neighbourhoods. They studied hard, as their immigrant, Black parents had told them to do, and about a year ago landed “dream” jobs as Metrolinx transit safety dispatchers, with decent pay, benefits and a generous pension plan.
After a rigorous screening process, they swore oaths and reported for work last May at the transit agency’s operations centre in a secret location in Oakville.
“It was liberating,” said Mounsey, 30, and a single mom with three children, to be hired on a 14-month contract, her foot firmly in the door. The “Canadian dream” her parents had spoken of was real. “I just felt like my life is going to begin now.”
For Taban, 24, the first day on the job, his a permanent one, was “amazing.” He remembers thinking of the kids he grew up with and the ones who are younger, and how he could tell them “it’s possible.”
And then, for both, the dream came to a crashing and bewildering end, after both failed a Toronto Police Service background check. They have never been told why.
Neither has a criminal record, but they suspect family connections are behind the decisions, rendered by police as a pass or fail, with no reasons supplied to them or to Metrolinx, in an arrangement that has since ended.
The dream, said Mounsey, now feels like “a crock of bulls---. If police have your name in their system, you’re screwed.”
In late May, Mounsey and Thairu, helped by lawyer Glen Chochla, filed nearly identical applications to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, alleging systemic racism and discrimination in the background check process and their firings, and that the system disproportionately impacts Black people.
It has been widely proven that Black citizens are subject to a higher degree of surveillance and policing techniques, such as street checks, and that they face socio-economic and other barriers that can lead to more involvement in street life, criminal records — and simply knowing people with them.
Neither Metrolinx nor the Toronto Police Services Board, named as respondents in the applications, has filed a response with the tribunal.
Any allegation of discrimination “deeply concerns us,” Metrolinx spokesperson Anne Marie Aikins told the Star in an email.
