DOGS IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY: NO WHITES NEED APPLY FOR CORRECTIONAL SERVICE OF CANADA JOBS IN ONTARIO
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DOGS IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY: NO WHITES NEED APPLY FOR CORRECTIONAL SERVICE OF CANADA JOBS IN ONTARIO
“The Correctional Service of Canada is disqualifying candidates for parole officer jobs because they are white,” according to a Toronto Sun report (Feb. 23, 2005). “An Ontario job-seeker received a rejection letter recently, advising that only aboriginals and visible minorities need apply.”
The Correctional Service of Canada letter stated that the Ontario Region of the CSC is no longer accepting applications from the general public. The letter says “CSC is committed to having a skilled, diversified workforce reflective of Canadian society.”
Conservative Party of Canada MP Myron Thompson has called this action “craziness”. He has said it is unbelieveable that the Correctional Service should put this in writing. According to the Toronto Sun report, he has “suggested that CSC is putting political correctness ahead of merit”.
“CSC spokesman Michelle Pilon-Santilli said the pool was narrowed because a high number of applicants were competing for limited openings and it was proving “costly” to maintain the inventory,” according to the report.
“There are two major issues in this incident,” says Dan Murray of Immigration Watch Canada. “One is the federal government's Employment Equity programme for visible minorities. As The Pursuit of Division (by Dr. Martin Loney), the only thorough study of that issue has clearly shown, Employment Equity for visible minorities was instituted without evidence for the sweeping claims that it made. At the time when Employment Equity measures for visible minorities were enacted, significant numbers of visible minorities were doing better than the majority of other Canadians.
“This parole officer incident and thousands of other similar incidents show that the Employment Equity programme for visible minorities is institutionalized discrimination against many Canadians, particularly against many who were born here. Let's hear the federal government tell Canadians how many thousands or tens of thousands of other people have been discriminated against and have lost job opportunities.
“The federal programme has spawned a large group of imitators who have not looked beyond the surface of this issue. Let's also hear provincial and municipal governments as well as union administrators and private sector employers tell Canadians how many people they have hired because of the Employment Equity programme for visible minorities. As many critics have said, the Employment Equity programme for visible minorities is the Employment Inequity Programme for the Canadian majority. It is legislated queue jumping.
“Myron Thompson has had the courage to say what the Canadian right thinks of this incident. Let's hear what the centre and the left have to say. The centre and the left are also supposed to be defending the interests of Canadians, yet many of them have favoured this programme. In fact, many Labour leaders have dismissed the traditional linkage in Canada between labour market demand and immigration levels.”
In the past, Canada reduced immigration in times of high unemployment. Since the late 1980's, Canada has committed itself to high immigration levels in perpetuity, regardless of labour demand. Dr. Loney and others have accused both the centre and left of abandoning the interests of many Canadians by favouring Employment Equity for Visible Minorities.
The federal government's Employment Equity programme for visible minorities began in 1986. It was instituted after a report by recent-Supreme Court of Canada appointee, Rosalie Abella. Dr. Loney and other critics have pointed out that Abella paid more attention to ideology than to evidence in making her recommendations.
“The second issue is that the CSC spokesman says the Correctional Service is trying to reflect the diversity of Canadian society by hiring visible minorities. It is too costly, the CSC says, to maintain this large file. The point is that the loud calls for diversity and multiculturalism began around the same time as immigration levels in the early 1990's doubled and tripled beyond previous numbers. Did we massively increase immigration intake in order to make the silly claim that Canada was diverse?
“For 15 years, Canada has found itself in the absurd position of bringing in people that it never needed and giving preference in hiring to those same people it never needed. Canada may need immigrants for a very few job categories, but we currently have 2 million officially and unofficially jobless. Who should Canada be serving?
“Myron Thompson has used the word 'craziness' to describe the hiring policy of the Correctional Service of Canada. Let's hear what the political centre and left have to say about the connection between this hiring policy and the high immigration levels Canada now has. Most Canadians would call current high immigration levels as well as the current Employment Equity programme for visible minorities “senseless”. What is even more senseless is that the a Task Force on Equity Employment wants to have visible minorities hold 20% of all federal civil service positions in the near future.”
Citizenship and Immigration and other federal departments have often claimed that immigration brings economic benefits to all Canadians. However, the federal government's own major study “New Faces In The Crowd” concluded that immigration provided Canadians with negligible economic benefits. Other major studies in the U.S. and Britain have reached similar conclusions. The major Canadian study was done by the Economic Council of Canada.
Another major federal study, “Charting Canada's Future”, concluded that immigration was a poor tool to deal with future demographic issues such as an aging or declining population. Internal measures such as making better use of the female work force and providing employment for 45+ year-old males were statistically superior to measures such as immigration. That study was done by Health and Welfare Canada. Two hundred university researchers from across Canada worked on that study.
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No whites need apply
CORRECTIONAL SERVICE RESTRICTS JOB APPLICATIONS
By KATHLEEN HARRIS, OTTAWA BUREAU
The Toronto Sun
February 23, 2005
CRITICS ARE calling it “craziness” that the Correctional Service of Canada is disqualifying candidates for parole officer jobs because they're white. An Ontario job-seeker received a rejection letter recently, advising that only aboriginals and visible minorities need apply.
“Please be advised that effective immediately the Ontario region of the Correctional Service of Canada is no longer maintaining an inventory for parole officer applications from the general public,” the Feb. 19 letter reads
“Due to staffing resources we will continue to accept applications from aboriginal and visible-minority candidates only.”
CSC is committed to having a “skilled, diversified workforce reflective of Canadian society,” the letter continues, adding that future vacancies may be posted that are open to the “general public.”
Conservative MP Myron Thompson called the policy “unbelievable” and “craziness” and suggested CSC is putting political correctness ahead of merit.
“I can't believe they would put that in writing,” he fumed.
“What's happened to merit in this country — abilities and skills? What's happened to training and expertise?
“Everyone should be on equal playing field when it comes to applying for a position like that and it shouldn't have a thing to do with ethnic background.”
CSC spokesman Michele Pilon-Santilli said the pool was narrowed because a high number of applicants were competing for limited openings and it was proving “costly” to maintain the inventory. Aboriginal and minority candidates must meet all requirements for the job, she stressed.
“They are under-represented in both of those areas, so those are the only CVs they are maintaining right now,” she said.
“We do have a diverse population and we need to serve Canadians.
“Representation is an integral part of today's public service, as is education, experience and linguistic capabilities.”
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