“Diversity” equals… division, suspicion and hatred!
The Justice Department, confronting public allegations that it drives away visible minorities by denying them promotions and other opportunities, is requiring hundreds of managers nationwide to take anti-racism training.
The “national diversity awareness initiative” is part of a broad effort to change a departmental culture that a former government lawyer described as “toxic” when he testified at a Senate hearing on employment equity in the public service.
Mark Persaud, who came to Canada from Guyana as a refugee in 1983, told the Senate committee last year that he quit the Justice Department in 2003 because he was fed up with the “overt racism and discrimination of employees.”
He said he once attended a mandatory anti-racism seminar for government lawyers and “I recall the hostility of my colleagues” at being forced to participate.
