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The Appeal was filed in 2020 and the group is still at the authorization stage before the courts.
In 1980, when entering the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Alain Babineau didn't have it easy. He still remembers his first job interview, particularly when he was asked: how would he react to racist comments?
A question that follows him even after 30 years within the federal police. Mr. Babineau is retired and currently advocates for Black civil rights across Canada, particularly in Quebec. He is the advocacy director (francophone) of the Black Class Action Secretariat which is claiming 2.6 billion dollars from Ottawa on behalf of some 30,000 Black civil servants, former and current, who have lost "opportunities and benefits" because of their ethnicity, since 1975.
The Class Action was filed in 2020 and the group is still at the authorization stage before the courts. The application, rejected in 2024, is currently in Federal Court of Appeal. There are 14 plaintiffs in this action against various federal agencies, including the RCMP, Customs, Correctional Service, Justice among others.