Federal government has spent more than $15M fighting Black class-action lawsuit

The federal government has spent more than $15 million fighting a class-action lawsuit filed by Black public servants, documents filed in Parliament show.

A document prepared by the Department of Justice said the government’s legal costs amounted to approximately $15,024,452 as of September.

Nicholas Marcus Thompson, president and CEO of the Black Class Action Secretariat, said in a statement that while the government publicly acknowledges the existence of anti-Black discrimination and settles class actions brought by other groups, it “continues to target Black workers with costly and aggressive legal battles.”

“By choosing to fight rather than fix the problem, the government reinforces the very systemic racism it claims to oppose,” Thompson said.

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