Unless the Harper government finally does what it said it would do, Governor General David Johnston may be the last white man with any standing in the federal bureaucracy.
I remember causing quite a stir among liberals when I wrote a national editorial for Sun Media congratulating Harper for appointing an “old white guy” as governor-general when all federal hiring ads made it quite clear that white men need not apply.
You’d think I had called the saintly Mother Teresa an infidel, or worse.
For the last fews years, many of us were under the impression that shortly after that editorial went to print, then Treasury Board president Stockwell Day told the Commons that he had ordered the end of the “affirmative” action program that gave preference in the federal bureacracy to those who are bilingual — preferably francophone, of course — or persons of colour, disability or of aboriginal descent.
But we were conned.
Apparently it takes a change in legislation to make merit trump special interest, and no legislation was ever tabled.
So forget about it. Even if you are white and bilingual, you’d best have another tick on your chart.
White only? Forget about it.
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I’m an Aboriginal person & when I applied in the working world I never thought that the job I got was because I was Aboriginal.Aboriginal ppl are at the end of the line when applying for jobs.I see more Black ppl & Asian in jobs than Aboriginals. I have 2 young Sons that are well educated and apply for jobs,in Policing & other jobs where there experience as young Aboriginals would make a difference,but these jobs seem to go to other ethnic ppl. Yes & I do pay taxes,even on the Land that I live on, that was taken away from us INDIANS as we are know as.
John
John, you are mistaken. Aboriginals ARE given priority over better qualified white applicants. Go and look at the http://jobs-emplois.gc.ca/ website and check out the “Aboriginal inventory” jobs plus others where Abos are the only ones who can apply. And what about the free post-secondary abos get if they have a 75%+ average in highschool? I had an average in the high 80s but I’m white so I had to work two part time jobs to get through school. I couldn’t get into the post grad program I wanted because my average was too low (maybe working so much caused it) but I know that abos with lower averages were accepted. This is especially true in the University of Manitoba. So all along my career path I have had to compete with less qualified abos who have federally sanctioned advantages over me. Despite all this I got a good job in the private sector until I lost it to restructuring in 2008 (along with scores of others). I wound up in the unemployment office and guess what I saw? Almost everyone of us freshly unemployed (over 90%) was white. The staff of Service Ontario was mostly non-white with several aboriginals in the mix. Of the whites working there, I did not see a single male employee. I’m now working again but at half of what I used to earn (still in the private sector). Multiculturalism is killing this country. It has already lost my support years ago and is gaining more opponents daily. Indians took this land from paleo-caucasoids 12-14K years ago. They are worse than the evil white man who took ‘your’ land since Columbus because the aboriginals were not completely exterminated like the paleo-caucasoids at the hands of your ancient asiatic ancestors.