Citizenship And Immigration Canada: Affirmative Action Policies

Public Service Employment Dept: Merit -- rather than colour, creed, or gender -- should be the ultimate arbiter for just about any employer sifting through applications and is bound to bring better results, according to Calgary Herald. An Ontario woman named Sara Landriault was hunting for work when she came across a desirable job at Citizenship and Immigration Canada CIC . However, upon attempting to submit her resume, she was stymied by the system because she is not a member of a visible minority. A CIC spokeswoman blandly dismissed the issue by noting that "We are underrepresented by aboriginal employees in our workforce." Landriault put it better: "But an equal opportunity employer does not stop one race from applying." "E qual opportunity" should mean exactly that, which is why the Conservative government's decision to examine affirmative action policies mandated by the Public Service Employment Act is so refreshing. The review, announced by Treasury Board president Stockwell Day and Minister for Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Jason Kenney, could hardly have come at a better time. A painfully obvious example of the sort of skewed hiring practices the Act encourages emerged earlier this week. As reported in the news.
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