Budget funding for Black public service workers called 'step in the right direction'

Although he believes it's short of what is needed, Nicholas Marcus Thompson, executive director of the Black Class Action Secretariat, says he welcomes the federal government's commitment of more than $40 million to establish a mental health fund for Black public servants, though he has concerns about whether the program will include Black-led leadership, noting that Treasury Board previously failed to include Black workers during the first stage of creating the mental health fund last year. Read More