text: Was she the one who wrote the phrase "person of colour" that appears in the introduction to her piece?
  
  If, so, then, hello?
  
  This is Canada. Everybody here is a person of colour. True, some are shades of beige, but beige is a colour just as ebony is a colour.
  
  In Canada, the phrase used in the article is a political power-grab, and an extremely offensive power-grab at that. Please stop denigrating the equal status of beige people with a phrase that inappropriately grabs them, and only them, as somehow the standardized measure against which all the other colours are to be measured.
  
  The phrase is maladaptive and sickeningly manipulative.