Tories want review of affirmative action hiring in public service

[Spazito]

OTTAWA - The Harper government says race and ethnicity need not apply when it comes to landing a job in the public service.

The Conservatives have ordered a review of government hiring practices, which currently give priority to qualified applicants from minority groups.

The Tories say favouring applicants from one group or another isn't fair.

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The federal government relies on data from Statistics Canada to determine how many people from each group are in the country's workforce. That data tells the government how well each group is represented within the federal bureaucracy.

more, much more

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/breakingnews/tories-want-review-of-affirmative-action-hiring-in-public-service-99031834.html

As I suspected, the backroom change to the census was not done in isolation but to enable the racist Reform Party aka New Conservative Party free reign to discriminate.

Despicable, completely despicable but, sadly, not surprising.