Court dismisses $2.5B class action alleging systemic racism in the public service

Nicholas Marcus Thompson, right, executive director of the Black Class Action Secretariat, and Bernadeth Betchi, CHRC employee and representative plaintiﬀ, participate in a news conference on the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions' “Special Review” of the accreditation of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa, Monday, June 10, 2024.

A Federal Court judge on Monday dismissed a motion to certify a proposed class-action lawsuit launched by Black public servants in 2020 who alleged there was systemic racism within the public service.