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Majority of Canadians oppose equity hiring — more than in the U.S., new poll finds
While only 28 per cent of Canadians support equity hiring, 36 per cent of Americans support affirmative action
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Published Dec 03, 2024 • Last updated Dec 03, 2024 • 4 minute read
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A majority of Canadians say that employers should not take cultural or ethnic backgrounds into consideration when hiring, according to new polling.
Fifty-seven per cent of Canadians disagree with the notion that equity should be a part of hiring, according to the poll done by Leger for the Association for Canadian Studies.
“The survey results point to some pushback on the issue of minority hiring in Canada and the United States,” said Jack Jedwab, president of the Association for Canadian Studies, in an email.
In fact, equity hiring is less popular in Canada than the United States. While only 28 per cent of Canadians support equity hiring, 36 per cent of Americans support affirmative action. Meanwhile, less than half (46 per cent) of Americans oppose it.
The polling comes as diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), has come under increased scrutiny in the business and political world. Last month, Walmart scrapped its diversity program, making it the largest corporation to do so. (Others, such as Harley Davidson and John Deere, have also done so.) In the political realm, some political parties, including Alberta’s governing United Conservatives, have policies that explicitly endorse the elimination of DEI hiring within the public service and Crown corporations.
The Canadian federal government has specific equity targets in its hiring, a practice that has existed since the 1980s. The percentage of visible minorities hired by the federal government grew from just shy of 18 per cent to just shy of 27 per cent between 2016 and 2024. Jedwab said he decided to focus on employment equity because it’s “one of the key core elements” of what’s being talked about in the DEI conversation.
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“It is important that our workforce reflect to the best extent it can our demographic reality,” said Jedwab in an interview.
Diversity hiring is the most unpopular among Canadians between the ages of 45 and 54, at 62 per cent, although it’s similarly unpopular across all age groups. Even among 18 to 24 year olds, 50 per cent oppose diversity hiring.
Men and women, at 57 per cent, equally oppose such policies. Typically, women hold more progressive views on social issues than do men. Some of the pushback, Jedwab said, may be coming from those who believe there is systemic racism in Canada but that diversity hiring initiatives aren’t doing enough to rectify inequalities and that the ultimate targets or objectives might be unclear.
“The risk is, if the objective is, it can’t be met, people begin to ask what’s the point in the first place? And that’s problematic, because the program is important,” Jedwab said.
There are, however, some regional differences. In Quebec, where the provincial government has attempted to stamp out religious dress and jewelry in some workplaces, the objection to equity hiring is most strongly held: Sixty-three per cent of Quebecers disagree with it. Quebec is followed by Alberta, where 58 per cent say background shouldn’t be a consideration in hiring, and British Columbia, where 57 per cent hold that view. Fifty-five per cent of Ontarians polled agree, as do 53 per cent of those in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Only in Atlantic Canada, where 50 per cent oppose diversity hiring, is there not an outright majority.
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However, there are significant percentages of Canadians who say they don’t know the answer to the question. Nationally, 15 per cent of Canadians say they don’t know, a view that’s most likely in Ontario, where 19 per cent said they didn’t know the answer.
Immigrants are somewhat more likely than non-immigrants to support diversity hiring. Thirty-four per cent say it’s important to take background into consideration, compared to 26 per cent of non-immigrants. That said, a solid 50 per cent of immigrants still say that it should not be taken into consideration.
“There’s a hierarchy, a hierarchy of vulnerability, and some groups may feel that they don’t qualify,” said Jedwab. “There’s some confusion about who does and who doesn’t qualify in that hierarchy, which may also result in some support being diminished, because we’re also seeing that the support amongst minority groups themselves is not as high as we would have assumed.”
The polling did not specifically ask people why they object to equity hiring.
Freelance workers and the self employed, at 75 per cent, are most likely to oppose equity hiring, followed by full-time workers, at 58 per cent. Fifty-one per cent of part-time workers oppose equity hiring.
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The polling sought responses from 1,539 people in Canada between Nov. 22 and Nov. 24 via an online panel. A margin of error cannot be associated with a non-probability sample in a panel survey for comparison purposes. However, a probability sample of 1,539 respondents would have a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 per cent, 19 times out of 20. In the United States, Leger polled 1,009 people over the same time period, and that online survey has a probabilistic margin of error of plus or minus 3.9 per cent, 19 times out of 20.
Pervert who had sex with chickens in his basement while his wife filmed him is jailed for three years
- Man convicted of having sex with chickens which was filmed on a GoPro
- His wife joined her husband in the videos and admitted to aiding and abetting
- The chickens died as a result of 37-year-old Baig’s sexual activity with them
- Rehan Baig has been jailed for three years by a judge who told him his behaviour had been ‘depraved, despicable and perverted’
- Wife Haleem Baig was spared jail after judge heard evidence of domestic abuse
By Sophie Tanno For Mailonline
A care worker filmed warped home videos of her husband having sex with chickens in the basement of their home, a court has heard.
The horrifying footage of Rehan Baig abusing the birds, which were family pets, was saved under the file name ‘family vids’ and were shot by his wife Haleema.
The couple had a GoPro camera rigged up in the cellar of their home to capture the footage of both of them indulging in the ‘depraved and perverted’ acts.
Rehan Baig, pictured, has been jailed for three years by a judge who told him his behaviour had been ‘depraved, despicable and perverted’
Bradford Crown Court heard that Haleema Baig joined her husband in the videos and that he at one stage alternated between having intercourse with his wife and the chickens.
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The brown and white chickens died as a result of 37-year-old Baig’s sexual activity with them, the court heard.
He was jailed for three years by a judge who told him his behaviour had been ‘depraved, despicable and perverted’ and ‘would make any right thinking member of society sick to their stomach.’
Haleem Baig, 38, admitted aiding and abetting her husband’s sick actions but she was spared jail after a judge heard there was evidence that she had suffered domestic abuse at Baig’s hands.
The offences came to light after a raid on the couple’s home in Great Horton, Bradford, West Yorkshire, on July 9 last year by the National Crime Agency who were acting on intelligence that Baig had images of sexual abuse of children.
Two computer towers, a laptop and a mobile phone were seized and examined and images and videos of child abuse – 11 in the most serious category A – were recovered.
Baig was jailed for three years by a judge who told him his behaviour had been ‘depraved, despicable and perverted’
However investigators found more than they bargained for when they realised the sickening acts on the chickens and a dog captured in some of the footage featured Baig himself.
Prosecutor Abigail Langford told the court: ‘Moving images were found of the defendant engaging in penetrative sexual intercourse with a number of chickens.
‘Haleema Baig was depicted in some of these videos. Having viewed them it is clear they are filmed in the cellar or basement of their property and both are clearly depicted in the videos.
‘Rehan Baig is seen naked from the waist down and Haleema Baig is seen to perform a sexual act on him. He penetrates the chicken while she is standing close by.
‘There are other examples where Haleema Baig engages in penetrative sexual activity herself with the defendant while he moves between penetrating the chickens and her.
‘She is heard to make sexually encouraging moans to the defendant and engages in consensual sexual activity with him. These do help with her culpability in these particular acts.’
Ms Langford said still images were also found of the couple involved in sexual activity with a dog, which has not been found or identified and was not believed to be there own pet.
Reham Baig encouraged the animal into sexual acts with himself and his wife. She added that the chicken abuse had not taken place on only one occasion.
The horrifying footage of Rehan abusing the birds, which were family pets, was saved under the file name ‘family vids’ and were shot by his wife Haleema Baig (pictured)
She said: ‘There were numerous different chickens, brown and white birds and the defendant appears to be wearing different clothing, it is the Crown’s case that this was repeated behaviour.’
She said the chickens died in the course of the shocking abuse at the hands of Rehan Baig.
Some were seen in the videos being thrown into bin liners afterwards and in one instance Baig appeared to be having sex with a chicken that was already dead.
Ms Langford said: ‘Haleema Baig admitted in interview that the chickens had initially started as family pets. No dog was found at the address.’
Simon Hustler, mitigating on behalf of Rehan Baig, said: ‘Sometimes the exposure of the crime is substantial punishment in itself and these offences have attracted such derision, loathing and ridicule that this might just be one of those rare cases.
‘When he entered his pleas his life as he knew it came to an end. This case has attracted attention that is rare even in the digital age and he now rarely leaves the house, even sending out for cigarettes if he needs them.’
Mr Hustler said the case had brought shame on Baig’s family and had become notorious as far afield as Pakistan, Germany and Spain.
He added that the family had suffered threats and reprisals in the form of attacks on their home which had meant they had to call the police.
John Bottomley, for Haleema Baig, said she was a woman of good character who had risen from being a cleaner in a care home to becoming a senior care assistant ‘working long hours.’
He said Baig was appearing at court via a video link from a women’s refuge where she was living, saying: ‘She left the marital home, she would say, because of domestic abuse. The nature of that abuse being her husband screaming at and assaulting her.’
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He added that she had been a victim of her husband’s depravity herself after he rigged up a secret camera, hidden in an iPhone box, in their bedroom.
Mr Bottomley said: ‘She will suffer shame and humiliation for the rest of her life. Rehan Baig admitted two counts of performing ‘an act of penetration with your penis on the cloaca of a living animal, namely a brown chicken’.
He also pleaded guilty to the same charge charge on ‘several brown and white chickens’.
He also admitted possessing extreme pornographic images which were ‘grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise of an obscene nature’ which portrayed in an ‘explicit and realistic way’ a person performing an act of intercourse with an unknown animal, a dog and several chickens.
He also pleaded guilty to three counts making indecent photographs of children, some aged just six years old, as well as the possession of 405mg of cocaine and 4.07g of cannabis resin.
His wife, 38, pleaded guilty to three aiding and abetting counts, namely filming her husband having sexual intercourse with a chicken.
The brown and white chickens died as a result of 37-year-old Baig’s sexual activity with them, the court heard (Stock image)
Jailing Rehan Baig, Judge Richard Mansell, QC, told him: ‘The videos you made would make any right thinking member of society sick to their stomach and involved unspeakable acts of cruelty to animals you abused for your own depraved sexual gratification.’
One film showed two brown chickens dead on the floor and there is one occasion where it is perfectly apparent you were penetrating a chicken that was already dead.
‘The pain and suffering you must have inflicted on these animals must have been horrific and all these chickens died as a result.
‘These home videos were created for your own sexual gratification and kept so that you could go back and watch them, again for sexual gratification. They are beyond comprehension.’
He jailed Baig for a total of three years, placed on the sexual offenders register for life and banned him from owning animals for life, telling him: ‘You are not fit to bring up or look after an animal after what you have done.’
He said there was reliable evidence that Haleema Baig had suffered domestic abuse within the marital home and said he was prepared to suspend her six month jail term for 18 months.
But Judge Mansell told her: ‘You gave the appearance of having enjoyed some of the sexual acts with the chickens and dog.
‘You aided and abetted him in these acts although in truth he doesn’t appear to have needed much encouragement to indulge his depraved sexual practices.’ (Daily Mail, October 19, 2020)
Multicultural Clown Show — Toronto’s Chinese Mayor Dons Weird Dance Costume to Celebrate Caribana
It’s not just Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who likes to don a costume whenever inspiration strikes.
Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow was also recently spotted getting in on the act during the city’s annual Caribbean festival. Videos of the mayor dressed like a frilled lizard and gyrating her 67-year-old hips dominated social media this week.
Unfortunately, Chow’s outfit left very little to the imagination. – Rebel News
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