Anti-Asian Racism Won’t Go Away After COVID-19
Anti-Asian Racism Won’t Go Away After COVID-19
By Fabian Dawson
November 27, 2020
A wide-ranging national opinion poll that looks at Canadian attitudes towards Asians found that 78 per cent of those surveyed said policies should be in place to punish racial crimes.
Most Canadians polled by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada in its annual opinion survey say that anti-Asian racism existed in Canada before the pandemic, while more than half of them feel that it won’t go away after the COVID-19 virus is defeated.
The poll of 3,519 Canadian adults on their perceptions of the current and future state of Canada-Asia relations also found overwhelming support for policies that address racial crime as punishable offences.
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