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One thousand five hundred people now live in canvas tents on a football field-sized patch of dirt. On another field a few hours away, 200 people sleep each night with no blankets and no roof.
Over the past few years, successive ministers of citizenship and immigration have been outdoing each other in search of a lasting solution to Canada’s problematic refugee process.
I grew up a black girl in a colored neighborhood in the suburbs of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. What we call “coloreds” in Zimbabwe are individuals of interracial parentage, most often a mix of black African and European-descended white parents. Failing to find acceptance from either of their parents’ cultures, coloreds developed a culture of their own. I attended a colored church that slowly turned black as the coloreds decided to start a separate colored church conference—a decision wholly unsupported by the world church. They argued it was to facilitate ministry to coloreds.
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