Canada Has Long Had Laws Against ‘Systemic Racism,’ Study Says

It was back in 1913 that Prince Edward Island passed the first bill in Canada to prohibit discrimination, says a new study by the Aristotle Foundation public policy think tank. The bill said treatment for tuberculosis victims must be administered without regard for “class, creed or nationality.” The study traces the evolution of provincial and federal laws over more than a century, telling a story of Canada’s efforts to prohibit discrimination. Mark Milke, president and founder of the Aristotle Foundation, says they decided to undertake the study partly to educate that “prejudice” and “actual institutional racism” are two different concepts and shouldn’t be conflated....