preliminary assessment report<\/a> found that nearly one in five postings at the University of British Columbia limited eligibility to a specific identity group.<\/p>\n\n\n\nMark Milke, president of the Aristotle Foundation, told True North that \u201cthere\u2019s nothing wrong with diversity in an organic sense. What\u2019s wrong with something like \\[diversity, equity, and inclusions\\] or race-conscious hiring is it looks at people, not as individuals, but as part of some predetermined group; race, ethnicity\u2014and in some cases, religion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Milke noted that parts of Canada abandoned race-consciousness as far back as the 19th century. \u201cGovernor Douglas in British Columbia welcomed black Americans from California. They were not race-conscious,\u201d he said. \u201cThey could become citizens after two years, they could vote in school board elections, run as a trustee, and run for city council.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Ontario, Milke said, efforts to prohibit workplace race and sex-based discrimination began in the 1950s. \u201cThe existence of, say, personal prejudice is not akin to systemic discrimination,\u201d he said. \u201cDEI advocates keep conflating systemic discrimination with occasional instances of personal bigotry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Milke, an example of true systemic discrimination would be when \u201cwhite San Franciscans would not allow Chinese San Franciscans into white hospitals a century ago. That was systemic but that doesn\u2019t exist in Canada today.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Aristotle Foundation study says that Ottawa tied university funding to DEI rules starting in 2017, pushing campuses to meet equity targets. By 2019, some Canada Research Chairs were being limited to applicants from designated identity groups. It notes that government DEI pages describe designated identity groups but do not set criteria for viewpoint diversity in hiring or research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Simon Fraser University did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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