You have freedom of speech where the government can give it to you, stop expecting freedom of speech on platforms owned by private interests, that’s not how freedom of speech works.

DEI policies is anything that can be done to compensate for systemic (not systematic) discrimination in the workplace, may it be during the hiring process or after, the goal being to have a workforce representative of society and that is treated equitably and inclusively no matter who they are. It can take many shape or form.

DEI policies wouldn’t ignore it because DEI policies would make it so employers would have to take into consideration that there might be a reason why the Quebecois got their bachelor’s from a provincial university instead of McGill and it doesn’t make them less competent even though their paper isn’t as prestigious.

So you’re ready to wait centuries before making the hiring process fair to non white CIS gender hereto men because that’s how long it’s gonna take to fix all socioeconomic inequalities that need to be fixed in order to guarantee that no matter who you’re born at, you have access to the same opportunities to build your CV in order to apply for a job for a blind process that only tries to determine who is the most qualified candidate. Sounds like a white person wanting to protect their white privilege they don’t realize they have.

I’ll give you an example, white vs white. Quebec families don’t have as much wealth accumulated in general compared to Ontario families because until the 1960s the Catholic Church was omnipresent in people’s lives and forced them to have more kids and to pay to build churches and to keep doing manual labor under English management. To this day it still has an impact on their average level of education and on the kind of life they can afford to live.

You also want companies running towns while we’re at it?

It is efficient in the long run because offering them very jobs means they’re kids get to grow up in better socio-economic conditions.

You can give all the education you want to women and people of various ethnic backgrounds and the handicapped, in the end the white guy with the same (or sometimes worse) qualifications will get hired in their place unless DEI measures are put in place, that’s their whole point, getting companies to recognize that if they don’t make a conscious effort to prevent it, there’s systemic discrimination happening in all industries.

They also affect people after they get hired. Hiring a woman to end up giving her less money for the same work goes against DEI. Accommodations for people who have physical or mental health challenges affects everyone, even people who believe it’s not for them, they’re one car running a red light away from needing those and in some States that accident could mean them simply being laid off with no consequence for their employer and no recourse for the employee.

If it’s clear they are otherwise discriminating then yes it is

They should, in the place that is under their jurisdiction, i.e. the hiring process.

That’s not the employer’s job to take the government’s place.

Hiring on merit means only hiring white men because from birth they have an advantage. Unless you ignore all socio-economic issues people need to deal with throughout their whole lives, hiring based on merit only makes no sense, sometimes you have to give a chance to people you wouldn’t naturally give a chance to in order to break centuries old practices. Maybe in a thousand year a black kid will have exactly the same opportunities as a white kid, but it’s not the case now.

Because of subconscious notions they do need help to get jobs they’re qualified for. Hell, being bald is a deterrent, being called Kevin is a deterrent, being short is a deterrent to get hired with similar qualifications!

Hiring unqualified people also happens without DEI though and looking at studies on DEI’s impact on productivity it might actually happen more without it in place considering that output usually increases when implementing DEI measures…

A bunch of candidates from diverse backgrounds, the unqualified white dude gets hired out of unconscious systemic racism or out of fear of being flagged as a company with DEI measures in place. Nepotism as well, hire the son of a good employee even though better candidates exist…

Right, a white person joining a team that’s 100% non white would be considered an ethnic minority in this case.

I understand your point but HR won’t do a background check to figure out if an Indian candidate comes from a socio-economic background that makes them closer to the rest of the well off engineers team already in place vs a white guy that might have been raised in a very poor household. That’s why it’s usually ethnic origin, gender, handicap and surface stuff like that.

Correct, unless it’s for work that doesn’t require special qualifications then it’s usually a question of “out of those employees with very similar qualifications, is one of them part of an ethnic minority/a woman/someone with a handicap?”

It’s usually more than just “not only hiring old white dudes” but a conscious effort to make the place more representative of society by intentionally hiring people of diverse gender/ethnicity/handicap instead, sometimes leading to processes being closed to people who aren’t part of certain groups, which might in theory go against some laws depending on where you live, but the same thing can be achieved by just wasting time filtering out white men’s CV or just not calling them back after interviews, so I personally don’t mind just being excluded and giving others a chance, if they don’t have non white dude applicants then I’ll get called and otherwise I’ve got plenty of doors open to me, more than most in fact and that’s not ok.

Because both companies are doing the same thing at the moment regarding a certain subject…

Well the next 4 years are part of forever

It’s federal taxes so it’s the federal government that’s subsidizing some provinces and not others to make their potential tax revenue per capita the same, the goal is to make sure those provinces aren’t left behind.

If the program didn’t exist Albertans would still pay those taxes, they would be used to pay for other Canada wide programs.

Bonus: Lil’PP signed on the the current calculation of transfer payments, it was put in place during the Harper years.

So?

Do you understand the goal of transfer payments? Because from what you just said you already don’t understand how it works.

Workers rights are of provincial jurisdiction with some industries being under federal jurisdiction (like banks), so it would mostly be up to the new provinces.

Healthcare coverage is made mandatory by the federal side but is of provincial jurisdiction (so it’s not handled the same everywhere).

Don’t think this dog needs it even when it’s cold…