don cherry as top public intellectual
The National Post has concluded its "Beautiful Minds" series with Don Cherry winning the honour of top public intellectual. How very adorable.Liberal Party of Canada up-and-comer, Iraq war apologist, "coercive interrogation" cheerleader, and all around trumped-up bore Michael Ignatieff came in last at 15th place.
More interesting perhaps than Don Cherry being considered the country's top intellectual by National Post readers is that Robert Fulford, in his column, pretends to be shocked that Post readers are familiar enough with Mark Steyn to have voted him second place on the list.
Really? Fulford is surprised by an overlap in readership between the paper that Conrad Black and Ken Whyte built - whose lead story in this weekend's print edition is a piece bellyaching about the hiring of minorities and the disabled at Public Works - and The Western Standard - whose top headline today reads "Unliberating Women"? C'mon.
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posted by williamNPH @ 1:18 AM
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"a piece bellyaching about the hiring of minorities and the disabled at Public Works"
Is this the piece you refer to? And would you be so kind as to state very clearly whether you agree or disagree this this?:
"A major federal department has temporarily banned the hiring of able-bodied white men in an unusual move critics say could spark a backlash against the very disadvantaged groups it is meant to help.
Managers in the Public Works department must hire only visible minorities, women, aboriginals and the disabled, except with written permission from their superiors, David Marshall, the deputy minister, ordered in an e-mail circulated yesterday.
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Still, a veteran labour lawyer said yesterday he had never heard of an edict actually barring the recruitment of large numbers of people. And even a federal civil service union that strongly supports employment equity questioned the wisdom of the policy.
"I think it's creating a possible backlash against equity groups and then it's not helping these people to get into government," said Nycole Turmel, president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada.
"It's even creating more frustration or anger from the workforce as well as from the population ... I am quite sure the people they hire will be competent and good employees, but that is not the point here. They will be seen as targets, and then people will question their hiring, and I don't think it will help them."
http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=8b38e8a9-f7de-460b-9bd7-723991e9d12e
My good man William: When Nycole Turmel - of all people - starts saying this has gone too far it's time to start listening. You only shame yourself and hurt Canada by cowering in your spider-hole of political correctness.
No more. Jamais plus. We - the good men and women who care about this country - aren't going to let you goons run this country into the ground. The onus isn't on me or any other right winger anymore to convince you to vote CPC; the onus is now on you to defend your explicitly and unambiguously racist and sexist policies.
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