![]() A tremendous, bureaucratic make-work project. Justin Trudeau puts his (small) mark on the world - Macleans. Once Ontario’s new Ministry of Racial Profiling has been set up, it will likely take years for all existing provincial government policies, and all future policies, to be correctly filtered. A little thinking is clearly a dangerous thing, and perhaps the Premier should do a lot more thinking about this initiative. What of ethnicity? To be truly sensitive and inclusive, perhaps “ethnic” lenses may have to be used in addition to “racial” lenses, to focus more accurately, because, of course not all members of a particular race share the same views. How else to ensure that the racial lens focuses correctly?īut let’s not stop with race. If anything, it will likely be bigger, because in order to ensure that Ontario’s current and future policies are properly “racially focused,” a large and racially-diverse number of civil servants will need to be hired so that the filtering is fully representative of all of the racial groups that make up Ontario’s diverse population. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. ![]() In the video conversation, Trudeau was at. To ensure the government’s “race lens” focuses properly, Wynne says a “structure” will need to be created “that is going to allow us to filter the policies we put in place, to create new policies to put protections in place.” How these race-based “protections” will differ from or supersede the broader (but apparently inadequate “human rights” protections that already exist in Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms and many other pieces of provincial legislation is unclear. Also yet to be determined: the shape and size of the “structure” that Ontario will need to establish to filter government policies through Wynne’s “race lens.” Will it be akin to the bureaucracy that administers Quebec’s French language laws? Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke briefly with the CBCs Ron MacLean about the Tragically Hip on Saturday night. But if she is musing about it in public, you can bet a formal proposal is in the works. Wynne told the Post that it’s time to use “the race lens” when formulating government policy, adding, “we need to start,” although she said she has yet to discuss the idea formally with cabinet. Ontario premier says it’s time the province started analyzing policies through a ‘race lens’Ī little thinking is clearly a dangerous thing, and perhaps the Premier should do a lot more thinking about this initiative. ![]()
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