In June 2022, we organized a special lecture at the McCord Museum in Montreal. This is a recording of the lecture Queen’s University Professor Emeritus Keith Banting and McGill University Professor Debra Thompson delivered.

They explore why Canada’s robust welfare state – which includes universal health care and myriad employment and training programs – as well as a race-neutral immigration selection system, official multiculturalism and the Charter have not been able to mitigate racial economic inequality.

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Keith Banting

Keith Banting is a professor in the Department of Political Studies and the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University, where he also holds the Queen's Research Chair in Public Policy.

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Debra Thompson

Dr. Debra Thompson is the Canada Research Chair in Racial Inequality in Democratic Societies at McGill University and a leading scholar of the comparative politics of race.

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Keith Banting

Keith Banting is a professor in the Department of Political Studies and the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University, where he also holds the Queen's Research Chair in Public Policy.

Debra Thompson photo

Debra Thompson

Dr. Debra Thompson is the Canada Research Chair in Racial Inequality in Democratic Societies at McGill University and a leading scholar of the comparative politics of race.

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