Who need not apply?

On Saturday it was revealed that the Deputy Minister for Public Works in Canada, David Marshall, had placed a temporary ban on the hiring of able-bodied, white men.

The reason Mr Marshall gave for the employment ban on white men was to make sure that the public service was “representative” and inclusive of “disadvantaged groups” such as women, visible minorities, aboriginals and the disabled.

But the fact is that the representation of women, aboriginal people and the disabled in government employment is already greater than in the Canadian workforce as a whole. Only visible minorities are less well respresented in the public service, and only by a small margin (7.8% compared to 10.4%).

Furthermore, the government has set a benchmark of 20% of new recruits being visible minorities - which is double the proportion of visible minorities in the workforce as whole.

So the real aim does not seem to be representative employment. The policy smacks of the leftist assumption that white men are an oppressor group who are privileged in a systematic way at the expense of women and other “minorities,” and whose place and role has to be deconstructed in order to bring about equality and social justice.

The effect of this theory, ironically, is to make white men the very opposite of what the theory claims - far from being an oppressor class, the theory turns us into the group whose interests are least protected.

Little wonder that the white male vote in most countries has shifted to the right. Canadian men would be wise to follow suit and to bid adieu to left-wing politics.

(The employment ban was rescinded after the policy was made public.)

Posted by Guest Blogger on Wednesday, November 23, 2005 at 06:51 AM in Canadian Politics
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Posted by jonjayray on November 23, 2005, 07:39 AM | #

The ban has now been rescinded after an outcry

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