Canadian Politics Today

Conspiratard Graham is in da house!!!   

I is crazy!!  https://www.complianceweek.com/boards-and-shareholders/understanding-canadas-new-diversity-disclosure-requirements/27805.article

https://www.canada.ca/en/government/publicservice/wellness-inclusion-diversity-public-service/diversity-inclusion-public-service/diversity-inclusion-priorities-public-service.html

Ensuring the right benchmarks: Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat will continue to work closely with partners, which includes supporting Employment and Social Development Canada on the review of the Employment Equity Act, to ensure that the public service applies appropriate benchmarks for diversity. Benchmarks are being used to guide the development of strategies to that will strengthen diverse representation throughout the public service.

Benchmarks = quotas.  Of course, I can't find anything on exactly what these benchmarks are.  I guess these are more internal and someone would have to do an access request for them or something.  As I have said I don't have a problem with quotas and diversity hires, and in fact support them, as long as these "benchmarks" are based on some kind of passable social science that can legitimate the benchmarks based on some kind of actual reality of discrimination problems that exist, rather than people just pulling things out of their butts because the PM or ministers want to signal their virtue about how progressive they are.

The whole point is to ameliorate discrimination/bias in hiring so everyone gets more or less a fair shake, the point isn't charity.  Charity needs to come in the form of social programs to help people have a better shot at getting hired on merit, like education.