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Our culture is profoundly affected by the racism that is entrenched in established and systemic practices, and is all too real for many young people and their families (Canadian Human Rights Commission, 2018, 2023; Gajaria et al., 2021); Canadian Human Rights Commission, 2018). In Canada in 2024, nearly half (45%) of racialized Canadians, some as young as 15 years old, shared that they had faced racism and discrimination in the previous 5 years. At the same time, 8 in 10 (81%