Stockwell Day: Citizenship And Immigration

Immigration Minister Dept: Now, in Canada, another difficult decision has to be made about affirmative action. Last week two federal ministers announced plans to review public-service hiring policies which give preference to aboriginals, women, the disabled, and visible minorities, according to Montreal Gazette. This issue, potentially so emotional, calls for calmly weighed words on all sides. But New Democratic MP Pat Martin, for one, has already absurdly accused the two ministers of "pandering to their neo-conservative base" by calling for the policy review and the 1965 Voting Rights Act and other U.S. legislation signalled the end of segregation, but a signal was not a reality; social attitudes and private opinions yielded to what we now see as simple justice more slowly than the law. To move beyond words in a law book, it seemed necessary actually to discriminate against whites. Treasury Board President Stockwell Day and Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney acted after a woman complained that a government website told her she was ineligible for a job she wanted, simply because she is white. As reported in the news.
@t voting rights act, visible minorities