Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty apologized Sunday to a young job applicant who received an e-mail from a cabinet staffer referring to him as a “ghetto dude.”
Evon Reid, who is one credit short of a political science degree from the University of Toronto, applied for a position as a media analyst with the Ontario government and last week e-mailed the cabinet office to follow up. Aileen Siu, an office worker, replied: “This is the ghetto dude that I spoke to before.”
Ms. Siu intended to forward the message to co-workers, but mistakenly sent the response to Mr. Reid, who is black.
Sunday, Mr. McGuinty phoned Mr. Reid and “apologized for the completely unacceptable incident … and he thanked Evon for having the courage to go public,” said Chris Morley, a spokesman for Mr. McGuinty.
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