TORONTO --
A prominent Black lawyer and diversity consultant from Toronto is speaking out after the Hudson's Bay Company used her image without her permission for the Charter for Change campaign, which supports the “education, employment and empowerment” of racial minorities.
On Monday, Hadiya Roderique got a call from a friend.
“She said, ‘I didn’t know you’d being doing work for The Bay,’” Roderique told CTV News. “And I said, ‘I didn’t know I was doing work for The Bay either.' So that’s how I found out.”
Roderique tweeted a photo later that day of of a display at Hudson’s Bay for “Hudson’s Bay Charter for Change,” along with directions to scan the image for information on how to donate to empower “Indigenous peoples, Black People and People of Colour across the Country.”