. SPLES HAVE sent.me the
complete NDP plot for cheat-
ing white males out of jobs at
BC. Hydro.

‘As most people will be aware,
. employment equity, reverse discrimi-
nation, or whatever else you want to
call it is the NDP’s top priority. But
it’s still useful to’ get the whole book,
chapter and verse, in the form of a

“ :teport. written in June by the Crown’

Corporations Secretariat. ..

Ats title is Recommendations for
Improving the Employment Equity
» Performance of B.C. Hy ‘dro. Also *
included was an internal memo .

‘ "penned by John Sheehan, B.C.

, Hydro’s chief executive officer.

*, The 16-page effort is a social

a “y_ engineer's dream, full of drivel about

noble aims, together with instruc-
.. tions (disguised as “suggestions” ) to
restrict half of all future Hydro hir-
ing to “equity groups,” meaning
mainly ininorities.

» There is no mention of quotas,
- which is'a no-no word. Presumably,
half of all hirings would not consti-

“tute a quota.!

/ Women are also to be favored,
“and according to said drivel, one of
“the main troubles is that the ladies
are not in the right trades or execu-
tive positions. A little job up-heaving

“is therefore necessary. But it is the
~ minorities who get the most ink:

4

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» Hydro doesn’t seem to have been
jumping to attention enough in the
. NDP. drive to stuff its’staff with
‘equity bodies. So. what f take to be a -
“ bitof nervous scribbling on the
internal memo by Mr, Shechan

states, a litle ungrammatically: “We:

“need to give strong support for this
‘initiative,
> You muy think that this does not

affect you, But you may be wrong.

© The instructions are clear, ‘The
equity police in Hydro must take a.

“look at companies doing business

-with the corporation and bring them
into line. ‘The nudge-nudge implica-
tion is that if those firms don’t come

“up to snuff in the matter of minority -

“hiring, such racists should not get

Cheers for
Rev. Doug)

1
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» contracts,” =.

. In Hydro itself, “the hiring process
should be closely monitored." In
other words, those doing the hiring
had beter watch, ir asses,

Dear Editor:
' Cheers for Rev, Doug (Sunday,
July 23).'He tells it as itis. :
‘Pope John Paul 11 is not his own
boss, and therefore’ cannot go along
with the concept of moral liberation
because He was, is and will be for-
ever more does not change, or
“does His divine law, which must be

upheld, by our great leader, Pope —

John Pauly.

Wishful) thinkers who believe

© otherwise - should understand , that

cach and every one of as must take;

care’ lest we end up in the wrong
place.’ :

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H other hand

Some of the language used is a
‘critic’s delight. The report admits,
for instance, that “changing the orgi-
nizational culture” is not easy. °

That meins that Hydro has
regrettably, clung to the merit system
of hiring. But that must be aban-
doned.'A new culture is required in
which race of the right sort is. given
its proper due, It is also a matter of
regret to the authors of the report

‘that most Hydro employces don’t

seem to understand the necessity for
a new culture.

To facilitate its growth, more
brainwashing sessions are necessary
on “multiculturalism, diversity, and
equity.” These, | would assume, are
more important than keeping the
power flowing.

There was much hand- wringing
over Hydro’s failure to change peo-

ple’s thinking. Oh, Brave New
World! What a pity the NDP can't
feed people the right pills in order to
make them more pliant.

Another. .tplaint is because of
the last-hired, first-fired system,
some “equity employees” had to be
fet go in the recent economy mea-
sures. That is not good enough,
states the secretariat. But if they try
to push that on the unions there
could be a riot.

Did | say something about drivel?
Nothing could be more drivel-ridden
than the claim in the report that hir-
ing minorities is good for business.
The unnamed authors seem to think
thal Asiatic companies and others
give a damn about it. Heck, Asiatics
could teach us a thing or two about
racism and are more concerned with
making a buck rather than with
whether Abdul the Barbur or Mrv
Chin-Chin has a job.

Much is made of how society has :

changed as a result of immigration
policies and how everyone must

therefore grovel. To that I offer wo...

- coniments, | . . :

First, no‘one except lunatics, lib-
erals and ethnic pressure groups
asked for society to change.

Second, there is no good reason
to hire by racial percentage. If the.’
minorities are there, through no-
one’s fauit but their own, fet then
make their own way. And to hell
with the NDP's social enginéering
and vote-licking. °

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