Indigenous man asks London Transit for 'more sensitivity' after being denied service
CBC
An Indigenous man says he was racially profiled after a bus driver for the London Transit Commission (LTC) ordered he be barred from service for an entire day.
Ian Badger, 33, was planning to take the Route 4 bus to work on the morning of Oct. 3.
He waited at a bus stop in downtown London, Ont., in front of New St. James Presbyterian Church, at Wellington and Oxford Streets. He was wearing a mandatory face mask and the hood of his sweater was up to protect his head from the cold.
As the bus pulled up in front of him, Badger took out his ticket and prepared to board, as he had many times before. But he said he didn't expect what happened next.
"The doors don't open," Badger said. "And then it speeds off and takes the corner left turn really quickly, as if to make sure I can't even catch up. And then all these other buses just started speeding by at the same time. I was pretty shocked."
Badger took an Uber to get to work. At the end of his shift, he left a message with the LTC's customer service line, detailing the incident. He said he made a point to disclose that he identifies as Cree to the representative.
"When I told him my name, he's like, 'How do you spell your name?' And I said, 'Ian Badger,'" said Badger.
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