Washing ceremony marks settlement of Canadian Tire racial profiling complaint

By Ashley Joannou and Darryl Greer The sounds of Indigenous drums and song bounced off the walls of an East Vancouver banquet hall Tuesday evening as members of British Columbia’s Heiltsuk Nation gathered for a traditional washing ceremony years in the making. Dawn Wilson and her father Richard filed a human rights complaint against Canadian Tire and security company Blackbird Security over a racial profiling incident at a store in Coquitlam. Canadian Tire acknowledged its former employee contravened the human rights code against racial profiling and discrimination when they searched Richard W…