Addressing Economic Racism in Canada’s Pandemic Response and Recovery

Rather, systemic racism on the epidemiology of a disease – how and often manifests in different ways for Black, to whom COVID-19 spreads – and social Brown and Indigenous men versus women movements, the media, and academics have or LGBTQIA2S+ individuals19, and so they are brought the epidemiological importance of affected by different outcomes to different racism front and center. [...] This reckoning is essential to representing the interests of the majority of victims of Theories suggest that the dismissal of the economic inequality, and to seeking truly role of racism, or its framing as individual effective solutions. [...] Intentional or otherwise, this view This policy brief describes the link between of the world obscures the central process at systemic racism (particularly anti-Black and play, which is that systems of racism (which Indigenous systemic racism), economic are baked into our policies, institutions, injustice, and COVID-19, and makes the case and threaded throughout every aspect of for three of the mo [...] Based on the experience of how the pandemic response has unfolded and the Systemic racism, institutional racism, and available data, the role of “essential service” other similar terms are used to describe work among Black and Brown working-class the breadth and depth of institutional Canadians appears to be key31. [...] COVID-19, are present for virtually every health outcome of which we know, from The second fact then, is that the low birth weight and infant mortality in the pervasiveness and persistence of racial health earliest years of life, to asthma in childhood, inequities is entirely due to the systemic to cardiovascular disease and depression in racism that creates systematic differences adulthood, to de