Race Based Data

Question to Premier about Race Based Data March 23

We know from other jurisdictions that COVID-19 has hit racialized communities harder. In Toronto’s second wave of the virus, nearly 80 per cent of COVID-19 cases were among racialized groups. I can table that. It is a virtual certainty that this problem exists here in Nova Scotia, but we just don’t know for certain because this government has refused to collect race-based demographic data in health care, despite years of work and advocacy in the African Nova Scotian community to get this done. How does the Premier expect to address racism in this province if his government won’t collect basic data on the problem?