Scratch A Director Of Equity, Diversity And Human Rights

9 Replies to “Scratch A Director Of Equity, Diversity And Human Rights”

1. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: It’s irrelevant which Party governs in this country — the real political power is in the hands of the bureaucrats, whether lower or middle-level Feds or Provincial bureaucrats or third-tier municipal. It’s the post-Soviet neo-Marxist model taking root everywhere — it’s the way Chavez and Ortega have maintained ideological power even with democratic legislatures and independent judiciaries.
   There’s only one cure: Bureaucrats at any level must not be allowed to make their own legislation and run their own feifdoms. Our local bureaucracies is where “the rubber meets the road” for the regular citizen and affects our fundamental liberties, not what happens in Ottawa. If the local bureaucrats’ policies violate fundamental constitutionally guaranteed rights and freedoms, common law, or the policies of a democratically elected Government, then the bureaucrats must be FIRED! They are public servants hired to do a job — they are not Legislators, policy-makers, or Judges authorized to interpret the law.
   Until Harper, Ford, etc., realize this, their “majority governments” are as useless as tits on a bull.
   Hate to say “I told you so”, but “I told you so”. I’ve been writing about this phenomenon for years — I call it “bureaucratic Marxism” for lack of a better term. Call it what you want, but these petty bureaucrats are anti-democratic tyrants.

2. Having worked for (in) the bureaucracy for several years, I heartily endorse ricardo’s screed.

3. Also having worked in the bureaucracy I witnessed first hand what Ricardo states. I would also add the special interest groups (NGO) to the list. Neither the bureaucrats nor the NGOs are elected, yet they are the real ones in control; not the politicians.

4. This is yet another object lesson in the ghastly mistake made in creating independent government agencies. Politicians have no excuse; their weakness in refusing to be accountable for unpleasant decisions is precisely why these independent bodies have come about.
   And the more that these agencies proliferate, the less accountability there is. I have some sympathy with Rob Ford. This is the situation he’s inherited, and fixing it is virtually impossible. To my knowledge, bureaucracy has never been reduced in human recorded history except by mass executions at the hands of barbarian invaders.

5. Uzma Shakir on Aqsa Parvez, in Rabble, natch: “The real dishonour and shame is to brush off our collective responsibility and our institutional failures and treat a Canadian child’s tragedy as “their” problem or even worse our problem for allowing them to come here in the first place.”
   http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/uzma-shakir/2010/06/aqsa-parvez-canadian-tragedy-lost-culture-talk
   Lady, what is this “collective responsibility” of which you speak? I didn’t strangle the girl.

6. Who hires these turds?
   Who does the background checks?
   Who invents the titles/job descriptions?
   Who decides the salaries and perks?
   Who approves the contacts with the obscene termination payments?
   Because these clowns – the nameless, faceless bureaucratic worms – are the real problem.
   It goes on and on and on. And wtf are our poliicians doing about it? Dick-all.

7. So when is Rob Ford going to dismiss this worthless ****?

8. Well, in fairness, she is just a city adviser offering an opinion within her job description. Clearly she has some conflict of interest issues that need addressing (with firing IMHO) but in this case, I smell a city lawyer advising not to turn it off on the basis of opening the city to litigation for speculating on the actions of a particular group without enough evidence that they will commit hate speech. Ultimately, it is up to the “City Manager”, whoever that is, who made the gutless decision to let it go ahead despite the clear intent of the Mayor and the Council. The nature of Quds Day at its inception seems enough to cancel this event but lawyers are cautious in offering advice. Modern society and modern politics eh?

9. Having the city have an observer present at the event sounds like a plan but one of the features of this new wave of newcomers is their policy of conducting their events in their native language.
   The observer can only record the Farsi for later interpretation….
   Predictably making the wrong choice of observer is the potential problem….much like the Director of the City’s Office of Equity, Diversity and Human Rights, Uzma Shakir.