Canadian Tire, security firm officials take part in Heiltsuk ‘washing ceremony’ in Vancouver as racial profiling case settled

Canadian Tire Corporation, its Coquitlam store and Blackbird Security have settled a complaint filed by Richard and Dawn Wilson and the Heiltsuk Tribal Council last year. The complaint centred around a 2019 incident of consumer racial profiling the Wilsons experienced while shopping and waiting for new tires to be installed. The settlement agreement says that “a security guard racially profiled Richard Wilson, searching his bag at the check-out in front of other customers.” Distressed by what happened to her father, Dawn Wilson told a store employee what happened, but he responded with racist …