Anti-Asian racism

Politicians including a Liberal MP and a senator say they fear allegations of Chinese interference in the 2019 federal election will lead to anti-Asian racism. 

A group of young Asian Canadian women, seeing few role models who looked like them in politics or academia, met online at this year’s virtual Daughter of the Vote event and have since joined forces to raise their voices.

Leaders of the Chinese-Canadian community say the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes across Vancouver and North America suggests the population has not been accepted as a part of the wider society.