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Canada should engage U.N. racism group, though chair independence a question: expert

HALIFAX Canada should respond to a U.N. committee examining whether it failed to protect Mi’kmaq fishers from racist violence, even though the independence of committee members can be questioned, a former human rights investigator says. John Packer, who has carried out human rights inquiries for the U.N. and is a law professor at the […] ....

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Canada should engage UN racism group, though chair independence a question: expert


A letter from the UN s Committee on the Elimination of Racism includes allegations Canada failed to take appropriate measures to prevent these acts of violence and to protect the fishers and their properties from being vandalized, and that treaty rights have been breached.
A federal Fisheries Department spokeswoman said in a text Friday that the federal government is reviewing the letter from the UN committee and will respond to the inquiry directly.
Packer, the director of the university s Human Rights Research and Education Centre, said if the group concludes Canada breached terms of a convention that aims to eliminate racism, it harms Canada s credibility, even if the conclusions aren t legally binding. ....

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