Diversity Is Our Strength

28 Replies to “Diversity Is Our Strength”

1. George Wallace once said: “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” He was called a bigot for that.

   Now that thinking’s actively promoted, but not in the way he had in mind.

2. Pure evil.

3. Because it’s never about the content of one’s character. Or one’s culture. Or one’s drive. Or one’s ability. Everything you need to know about someone is based on the colour of their skin and their ancestory.

   Adolf Hitler (paraphrased)

4. We,We,We, All the way home.

5. I thought a racist is one who judges a person by the color of his skin. That was what M. L. King fought against.

6. To paraphrase Bob Hope.

   I just flew in from Ottawa where they made racism legal, I thought I’d better get out before they make it compulsory…

   1. Well, Bob Hope was been very prescient; it’s as if homosexuality has been made compulsorty. What politician is not vilified is he/she does not kneel to the LGBT community and participate in a gay pride parade?

7. My career included work in the federal public as an industrial psychologist as an assessment/test developer/selection expert for hiring executives and managers. Terrible legislation passed in 1993 instituted affirmative action as the new government policy and this has not been changed. I always disagreed (Alberta roots), as I knew that any minorities I tested always came out fine, if they were good-to-go, but not all were.

   I have three problems with Trudeau’s new external recruitment initiative, which will be a serious disaster, and maybe even not be legal, as he is usurping the responsibility of the supposedly impartial Public Service of Canada!

   Problems with the proposal, other than legality:

   1) Really successful executives from outside government often really do not like the public service, once hired, as there are lots of rules and processes that seriously delay getting things done. Some of these rules are important, though, as we are seeing in the ethics violations. These external executives, in my experience often bail fairly soon, if they get frustrated by the pace.

   2) I seriously believe that Trudeau is bringing people in at the wrong level. Running a private sector business is very different from being a high-level government manager. Of course, he is himself is unqualified for his job, so he does not get it. The federal government has been very successful in bringing in well-screened, talented executive-bound people of all minority categories in mid-career and giving them a chance to shine in a series of appointments, gradually building the skill-sets required since 1970. Running a large department as an ADM/DM is not for the naive, low-energy, unprepared and faint-of-heart.
   We have seen that with some of his Cabinet choices. We also have seen people like Lisa Raitt come to the public service and she was very competent, as she had huge experience with the TO Port Authority, thus was always a competent Minister.

   ADMs actually have a harder job than a Cabinet Minister, as they have to actually get important stuff done, motivating their staff and considering a lot of detailed financial, policy and operational details. Clarence Louis would likely not be interested, and given that less that 5% of Canadians are First Nations, where do you find a competent, experience ADM/DM? I did quite a few assessments for first nations and gave the good feedback on how to develop their skills; most of them were reasonably talented small band leaders, but none could run a large department without extensive leadership and administrative development. Black Canadians are less than 3%, many newbies, so pretty tough to find talent to run a department. Leslyn Lewis is a winner, but she has not yet been a manager of many, yet, either. She does have the interpersonal skills, but needs experience. There would be others, of course.

   3) How will he assess these external people for extremely senior positions? Probably amateur interviews, which I know are mostly terrible for predicting job success. He will not use the Personnel Psychology Services of the Public Service of Canada. My former department knows how to do this. PM Chretien used our service to downsize!

   If one reads the literature carefully, as Dr. Jordan Peterson has done, wage and promotion gaps are actually due to experience, language competency (senior government positions require French and English), personal choices (some women do choose the “mommy track” for part of their careers) and educational factors, not “discrimination”. Nothing terribly new since my first happy, favourite course in psychometrics in 1967 at U of Calgary.

8. We white folks are a minority world wide, why are we not accepted in this diversity idiocy? Is it because we are too smart and make others look like fools? You can’t have true diversity without all races colors and creeds included, that includes white folks. Merit and qualifications are the basis for any and all jobs I have hired for and had been hired for. Tribalism however will always exist and will always be front and center.

   1. us white folk do not appear on the approved list. we truly do embarrass so many unqualified and over promoted minorities.

9. YTF is True North capitalizing Black? They’ve drank the Kool aid and don’t even know it.

   Quotas are as paternalistic as stuff gets. Its offensive.
   Will people be insulted, or just take the cushy job?

   No offence to L, but public servants should be punched in the face once a year and say thanks for the reminder.

10. CANADA IS NOT DIVIDED BY RACE, COLOR, GENDER OR SEXUAL ORIENTATION.

    CANADA IS DIVIDED INTO WISE PEOPLE AND FOOLS.

    AND FOOLS DIVIDE THEMSELVES BY RACE, COLOR, GENDER, OR SEXUAL ORIENTATION.

    1. +++J W

11. The TNC folks are about as “conservatives” as O’Toole’s CPC. Fart

12. That constitution always was a POS.

13. wait till diversity of religion raises it’s ugly head!!!

14. The will not end well. DMs and ADMs who do not know how to work the system will flame out spectacularly. And the only way you learn to work the system is through often bitter experience.

15. Let them have their divershitty. Smart people avoid government “work” like the plague. After watching those soulless PSAC drones with matching bowl cuts hiding their pointy heads during the C-19 hearings I couldn’t imagine why anybody in their right mind would want to work in the public sector. You see it in their eyes whenever you have to interact with them for services. Their lives are pointless dead ends and it shows.

16. Enough common sense Canadian voters need to vote this liberal government out, FFS. But I fear that there are too many liberal loonies socialists to allow that to happen. The latest craziness is the rule that one only needs 120 hours to qualify for EI. Another dis incentive to work. The slackers (not all of us are slackers) in the Atlantic provinces(where I am from) will love this. More voters for liberals.

    1. Canuckguy NB: Whom pays for all this?

17. I have never seen SYSTEMIC RACISM in this country – ever…till now. Trudeau and his band of vacuous incompetents declaring their RACIST ideology on a near Daily basis.

    Wallace and King must be rollin in their graves.

    I am betting this will go to the HUMAN rights Commision or the COURTS..? NO.? – Now that just might be a show to see…

18. An “inventory of black people”…is that like “binders full of women”?

19. The federal bureaucracy has been corrupted by identity politics since Trudeaupia 1.0 when bilingualism ensured only bilingual bureaucrats could rise to senior levels. One wonders now whether skin pigment will trump bilingualism or whether the eligibility gene pool will drastically shrink even more.

    Given that most federal ministries are irrelevant at best and economically and culturally destructive at worst, the conundrum is whether it makes sense to do the “wrong thing” the wrong way or the right way.

20. Here. Take the keys to the most overwhelmingly successful and desirable culture ever created on the planet. Nevermind, that you call it all “evil”. Here. Take it. We are tired of it. We are embarrassed by it. Really … it was our ancestors who built it. We didn’t do much. So like a child who has inherited a great fortune … we don’t appreciate the asset, or what it took to build it. Like a fossil fuel power plant … just tear it all down. We don’t care. Because … ”progress”, or something.

    But our cushy lives won’t change … right?

21. Will official bilingualism requirements be lifted or relaxed? Just asking for a friend.

    1. No.
       French will remain the same.
       English will be an indecipherable mishmash of cultural guttering.

22. Next deputy minister for immigration will be a Punjabi, I imagine.

23. This is what reparations look like