Corporations must advance anti-racist practices according to new report on racial profiling – APTN News
Aug 14, 2025
A report commissioned by the Heiltsuk Nation in B.C. on racial profiling involving Indigenous consumers is calling for more research into the practice, including the collection of more data on the issue.
The report is part of filings for a BC Human Rights Tribunal complaint that will be heard in Vancouver over five days starting Oct. 27.
“It’s really hurtful,” Heiltsuk Chief Marilyn Slett says of racial profiling incidents. “We can sit around a kitchen table or a boardroom table and all of us would have examples of something so it [the report] didn’t surprise us.
“Elements that did is that there’s not a lot of information out there for people to read or be apprised of, but we know it [discrimination] exists,”
