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Wednesday, 01 July 2009

Kind of patronizing, no?: The Canadian Human Rights Commission is promoting a Canada Post effort to give Aboriginal Canadians who pursue at least a year of post-secondary education a $1000 reward. In other words, to pat them on the head for doing something that in many other communities is really no biggie.

Dare one call it the soft bigotry of low expectations?

Meanwhile, over in Alberta, the pack of jackals that hounded Ezra Levant relentlessly for several years provide an update on an acronym-rich endeavour that one can barely make head or tail of:

Coalition of Municipalities Against Racism and Discrimination (CMARD) update on the Welcoming and Inclusive Communities initiative:
The Commission is partnering with Alberta Culture and Community Spirit and the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association (AUMA) to convene a networking meeting of Alberta municipalities working to build welcoming and inclusive communities (WIC). The meeting, to be held in September 2009, will be an opportunity for municipalities to learn about and share strategies for building WIC communities. 
The September event follows the March 19, 2009 meeting of Alberta member CMARD municipalities involved in building welcoming and inclusive communities, which took place in Calgary. The meeting of Alberta municipalities took place after the second pan-Canadian working meeting of CMARD member municipalities. 
The Commission, AUMA, and Alberta Culture and Community Spirit are members in a three-year WIC partnership to support municipalities in building their capacity to be welcoming and inclusive, and to combat racism and discrimination.
So if I’m reading correctly, the AHRCC is partnering with Alberta Culture and Community Spirit and AUMA with the aim of furthering WICs, something that was discussed following the second--not the first, mind you, but the second--pan-Canadian working meeting of CMARD member municipalities (of which I assume there are plenty, since who the heck would want to miss out on the chance to take part in a pan-Canadian working meeting, no less?).
 
The ‘human rights’ racket may do a crappy job of defending our free speech, but in the area of coming up with ever-newer and more confounding titles and acronyms designed to make what they do sound really important, it is virtually without peer.

Posted by: scaramouche at 17:48 | link | comments (1)


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#1  02 July 2009 - 03:16
 
CMARD?

More like CANARD -Canadian Nannies Association of Retired Dominatrices

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