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The government has announced a review of affirmative action in the Canadian government’s hiring practice. Minister Stockwell Day implies that hiring someone on the basis of their ethnic background is racist. This is one of the rare occasions when I can completely agree with Mr. Day. Affirmative action is fundamentally racist.
Unsurprisingly NDP MP Pat Martin disagrees. He seems to think that discriminatory practises are somehow not discriminatory:
“I don't think they can make a case that white, middle-class people are being denied access to public service jobs, or that there's any preference shown.”
I not only think that such a case can be made, I think that making it would be extremely simple. To do so I will use an example that has been recently provided by Blogging Tory Sara Landriault.
Ms. Landriault posted the requirements of a job for a position in the Federal government:
Applicants must meet at least the first requirement:
* Open to: Members of the following Employment Equity groups: Aboriginal persons, visible minorities
* Persons residing in Canada and Canadian citizens residing abroad.
It then went on to define what a ‘visible minority’ is:
A person in a visible minority group is someone (other than an Aboriginal person as defined above) who is non-white in colour/race, regardless of place of birth. The visible minority group includes: Black, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, South Asian-East Indian (including Indian from India; Bangladeshi; Pakistani; East Indian from Guyana, Trinidad, East Africa; etc.), Southeast Asian (including Burmese; Cambodian; Laotian; Thai; Vietnamese; etc.) non-white West Asian, North African or Arab (including Egyptian; Libyan; Lebanese; etc.), non-white Latin American (including indigenous persons from Central and South America, etc.), person of mixed origin (with one parent in one of the visible minority groups listed above), other visible minority group.
This is a government job that is open to anyone except for someone of a particular ethnic background. Just because it doesn’t explicitly say “no whites need apply” doesn’t mean that this isn’t what the government is saying.
So Mr. Martin please explain to me how exactly white people aren’t being denied access to public service jobs?
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Even if whiteys are allowed to apply and even if they do make it onto the short list of qualified applicants, the perceived disadvantaged groups still have priority when it comes to hiring.
There's a whole "diversity" industry in the public service now, payed for by the taxpayer, whose function is to force feed us the propaganda that this isn't racism, that this isn't tokenism, that, in fact, it's good for us.
The goal of catering to immigrants and minorities of all kinds is to create a block of support against the majority or status quo. This force will be used in the final throes of the communist takeover of this country, the US, Western Europe etc. If you doubt me consider my other predictions. (real conservative)
Statistics Canada is not an independent agency and it was created to be beholden to the government. England itself is changing its census so why is it a problem in Canada? (real conservative)
I applaud the government in their review of these affirmative action policies. However, they had better explore some tactic to address the ensuing backlash. While I abhor more government programs, I think they could counter by developing compensatory training, educational and apprenticeship programs (yes, more racist programs - read with exasperation) aimed at visible minorities. This seems antithetical to eliminating racism on principle, but I think they'll have to play the political game. It would be the lesser of the evils. Any other suggestions?
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