A British Columbia Human Rights complaint has been lodged against TD Bank by a man who is both a Muslim and a First Nations member:
When Sharif Bhamji, 37, completed the online portion of a Toronto Dominion Bank account application, he thought the process had gone smoothly.
That changed four days later on May 5, 2021, when he appeared in person at the TD branch near his Surrey residence to verify his identity. When he presented his Indian status card, he alleges the teller told him the ID was fake.
Isn’t this one of the same banks that froze the bank accounts of other Canadians without a court order and without an approved Emergencies Act?
I agree he has a compliant with TD. But, just because he checks the correct boxes, he gets to enrich himself quite nicely. Something that other people cannot get when treated like sh*t by a bank.
So there really is a VictimCard!
So there are a lot of First Nations Muslims with Arabic names? Who knew!
Both Indian AND another victim class….
/In your best Frau Farbissina voice/
Send-in-za-Trampling-Horzez!
The simple fact that this is supposed to bet you something AT THE BANK is a sign that that we live in clownworld.
Related…under the category “How Stupid Do You Think We Are Now?”
RBC customers who supported the truckers and/or recently closed accounts or made large withdrawals are getting emails assuring us that we can put their money in ‘safe’ US RBC accounts.
You know … the same RBC who, short weeks ago, did the Government’s bidding.
TD in hot water. LOL.
TD could have the man shot, scapegoat a lower-order employee, and you still wouldn’t notice a speck of difference in their market share or shareholder value.
So if someone who is half and half is Meti, how can someone who is Zero be native?
Half and half is poor man’s cream. In Indian terms, the term for 50% Indian is Indian. The term for 25% Indian is Indian. Anything less can be Metis. That said, Metis also consider themselves a culture rather than a race. The blond and red headed descendants of the Red River, Batoche, Willow Bunch, and St. Albert crew of 2 centuries ago are Metis. My daughter has a friend who is a blond haired blue eyed treaty Indian. He runs a business living in a shack on the back forty of a reserve. I’m betting he doesn’t have a tax problem. I suspect you can stretch out the dilution if an Indian woman doesn’t volunteer that Whitey knocked her up.
‘A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian’. For a Diversity of reasons. If we’re all to be equal why is there a special class for some and not for all ?
Does Mr Sharif have a drivers license?
what’s the probability that the teller hasn’t seen a status card before, and asked him to wait while she talked to her manager, and someone blew up about it?
Whenever people start saying that requiring picture ID to vote is racist because brown people are too stupid to know how to get picture ID need not worry about Treaty Indians. They are never far from their treaty card. Cheap smokes, no GST, at the reserve store.
I’ve never seen a status card – not that I’m in a position to check lots of IDs.
Are they similar in security features to a current driver’s license? I ask because this is the second incident where a status card has either not been recognized, or has been challenged (or some combination) by a bank employee. If a genuine status card looks easy to forge (or looks like it has been forged / whipped on MS Publisher) then it’s on the government to provide better and more obviously secure documentation for what is claimed to be a ‘primary form of identification.’
…or how about just open an account and give him an account #.
Oh right, money laundering. So you too are fine with banks being organs of state power.
Exactly like driver’s licenses.
Mind you there are make your own sites. And there are possible differing opinions on Treaty Status and Indian Status.
More likely due to stupidity; I recall a few years ago I was asked for Government Issued photo ID for something by the Ontario government. I produced my pilot’s license, which looks just like a passport. They refused to accept it. A pilot’s license wasn’t on their list. Incredibly they settled for a credit card, which doesn’t have my photo and isn’t government Issued.
So if you are refused bank service or have your funds frozen you can go to the Human Rights Commission?
I fail to comprehend a union that one would see a muslim being also a indigenous Canadian. That flies in the face of what muslims stand for being muslim. I mean sheite does happen in the sperm of the moment but what next? I have bought reserve cigarettes. Does that make me aboriginal? Suppose that it’s possible but highly doubt his muslim brothers are at all happy with that union. Just saying. If this is fact go for it. Sounds like a mixture made in good faith if fact.
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