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Article #63512Re: 'Employment equity' - & its UNJUST effects...
From: Sheldon Scott
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 1995 00:27
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 1995 00:27
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Graham_Hayes@mindlink.bc.ca wrote: : In <D554G5.AFJ@freenet.carleton.ca>, ar231@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Karen Gordon) writes: : > : >What I saw was long-term Canadians being pushed out of jobs and onto the : >U.I. system, while newly-arrived immigrants were guaranteed employment. : >This is 'Employment Equity'? : > : What it also means is that immigrants are being discriminated : against on the basis of RACE and SKIN COLOR !!! : We can have a wealthy, well educated person arrive from Hong Kong, : and receive a government job on the basis of the percentage of his : particular minority in the public service is underrepresented. Yet : we also see a poor refugee from Bosnia DENIED that government job on : the basis that their skin color is over-represented in the public : service. This is similar to policies put forth by the Clinton administration in the US. They say they want the government to "look like America!". I understand that objections to this policy are just that, objections to a government policy. Proponents of "employment equity" (I use quotes because the term is a euphemism for a racist hiring practice) try to counter our objections by calling us racists! Canada needs a Rush Limbaugh. Any volunteers?
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