Canada's National Post entrances with Whites needn't apply:
The federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans is looking for someone to fill the post of regional director of communications for its Pacific headquarters. It's a great job: The annual salary is up to $100,000, and it is one of only about 100 executive-level federal positions in British Columbia.I wonder if wearing a tin foil beanie would qualify me as a member of a visible minority group? Too bad I'm not Canadian!
Jobs like this are typically open only to the best and brightest. But in this case you have to be the right colour as well: The employment listing clearly specifies that it is available only to those "who are members of visible minority groups." The goal, of course, is to further Ottawa's long-standing campaign for a more "diverse" public service. But the government has long insisted that this goal would not be pursued by turning to hiring quotas. Certainly, one wonders what to make of Nurjehan Mawani, commissioner of the Public Service Commission of Canada, who recently pledged her faith in the merit principle, and declared that "[hiring] benchmarks are not about lowering standards or about excluding anybody. They are about casting a wider net." Memo to Ms. Mawani: The "net" for this particular job will exclude 87% of the Canadian population.
And what about the "invisible minority groups"?
