About being mistaken for white in Canada

Ajay Parasram in British Columbia

A few months ago - October last year to be exact - my son had an interesting encounter with a taxi driver in Toronto. He wrote about it and I published it on this blog. This week I passed it to CBC.ca producer Leigh Felesky and asked her whether she would be interested in posting it on the website's CITIZEN BYTES section.

Leigh was very happy to have it and said she was sure it would generate a lot of debate. She was right.

I invite you to go to the cbc website to read Ajay's story about being mistaken for white along with the scores of comments from cbc.ca readers from across Canada and the world.

It's a stirring debate about a subject that many people try to sweep under then carpet.