TD Bank said its diversity trainers were recommending workers avoid voting for the Conservatives for opposing indigenous rights, retracting from its previous comments, according to a letter obtained by the Western Standard. .“We have reviewed your concern and identified that TD did respond to the (Western Standard) article on 08/15/2022 and the situation was fully investigated,” said TD in a letter to a Calgary customer who filed a complaint..“We discussed that TD is very diverse and does not believe our work environment is a place to discuss political views.” .Social justice trainers were caught on August 11 telling a group of TD workers not to vote for the Conservatives because they do not care about indigenous people. .READ MORE: EXCLUSIVE: TD diversity trainers caught telling employees to not vote Conservative.“From what I know, Conservatives go against a lot of what indigenous people are trying to do, because they advocate for pipelines,” said one trainer named Carol. .“They don’t want indigenous people to have a voice.” . TD caught on tapeTD caught on tape .The source said she was frustrated with the comments the diversity trainers made. She said she is going to continue to push to find out if these trainers were fired. .While she does not bank with TD, she is an executrix on her mother’s account with this company. She said she will cancel her mother’s account if she does not receive a sufficient answer. .TD denied the trainers made the comments on August 15, saying the recording captured “the personal opinions of two employees responding to a question asked about their views on the political climate.” .READ MORE: EXCLUSIVE: TD asked Conservative MP about political beliefs to open campaign account.The bank said these comments were not affiliated with any training program. .It took multiple emails and phone calls for a response to be issued.
