What I'm talking about is the new proposal made by "Coun. Harold Usher, a visible minority born in Belize in Central America..." that suggests the city of London hires more visibal minorites.
Hey Harold Usher, if you're not satisified with the way we run things up here in Canada, why not go home to Belize and hire minorities there?
The part that really bothers me is "...the city (LONDON) had 36,420 visible minorities, excluding aboriginals, when the...census was taken in 2001.
That meant minorities accounted for 11 per cent of the city's 2001 population, which has since grown from 332,000 to more than 350,000, with the percentage of minorities also thought to have risen."
Push for city hall diversityMon, May 14, 2007
Ward 12 Coun. Harold Usher wants the city to adopt a strategy to hire more visible minorities.By JOE BELANGER, SUN MEDIATired of years of lip service on the issue, a London city councillor wants the city to hire more visible minorities.
Coun. Harold Usher, a visible minority born in Belize in Central America, has for years pushed to diversify city hiring with no visible success.
Tonight, the Ward 12 politician's motion asking city staff for a diversity strategy goes to city council for approval.
"I'm not asking for a quota system," Usher said."But we have to be more conscious of the problem. Unless we keep pushing for it, nobody does anything about it. Nobody seems to care."
Minority hiring was a hot issue in Ontario in the early '90s, when Bob Rae's NDP government brought in an employment-equity law to promote hiring by major employers of racial minorities, women, natives and the disabled.
Source: http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/Local/2007/05/14/4178300-sun.html
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