A federal judge has dismissed a class action lawsuit alleging systemic racism against civilian employees in the Department of National Defence (DND) and Canadian Armed Forces (CAF).
The suit, brought by Karen Lightbody and Rama Narsing on behalf of all racial minority civilian employees of the DND and CAF, was thrown out by Federal Court Justice Panagiotis Pamel, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.
The plaintiffs’ claims of being passed over for promotion and mistreated due to race were more appropriate to be brought before a labour board as individual employment disputes rather than as the basis of a class action lawsuit aiming to prove systemic racism before the court, according to Pamel’s Aug. 28 decision….