Daniel shares that he has had over 10,000 experiences of racism starting when he was a child. He states that he was told he cannot board a flight as the personnel did not believe him to be a Canadian and he carried a Canadian diplomatic passport. People would assume he is hotel staff because of racial profiling. Listen to Daniel’s calls for action and enact more hope by having difficult conversations about racism.
Further, here are 3 documents in English, French, and Mandarin as Daniel responds to Rex Murphy’s questions on racism in Canada:
Daniel has been a Deputy Minister with the Federal Government, at Parks Canada, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs, at Western Economic Diversification and as the Chief Human Resources Officer for the Government of Canada. He is the first ever federal Deputy Minister to be of Chinese-Canadian ancestry, a fact about which he is very proud. Daniel lives in Edmonton. He has lived in 6 provinces and territories, he grew up speaking both French and English, has never spoken English to his children, and has never spoken French to his wife. He was adopted by the descendants of Scottish and English immigrants to Canada but was born to a Chinese-Canadian father and a mother descended from Irish immigrants. He is a pilot, a motorcycle rider, has sung in a Philharmonic Choir, and practices target shooting.
