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Syrian Muslim refugee lead is story-justified, with diverse Toronto hospital cast including prominent non-white performers in doctor roles. Marketing and coverage emphasized immigrant and minority perspectives.

One episode centers a transgender teen patient; another involves a lesbian couple. Immigrant microaggressions and cultural clashes appear occasionally but without sustained activist lectures.

Core premise follows refugee immigrant adapting to Canada with cultural traditions and war trauma. Later seasons add recurring lesbian doctor and guest queer stories.

Shows bureaucracy hurdles for foreign-trained doctors and mild clashes between war medicine and Canadian systems. Not framed as broad systemic or ideological attacks.

Very little evidence of complaints treating the series as pushing woke, DEI, or identity politics messaging. Some US viewers noted a polarizing refugee viewpoint but no major backlash.

Joseph Kay developed the project around Muslim ban era to show Syrian refugee as positive contributor and consulted refugees. Other key creatives have limited public activist histories.