Racism in Canada

 

I am pleased to see that some farmers in the US are filing suit against the federal government for racial discrimination.

The problem is worse in Canada. The Trudeau government is blatantly setting tax funds aside for female-run and black-run businesses.

Unfortunately, while racial and sexual discrimination is ultimately illegal in the US, it is legal in Canada. The Canadian Constitution has a carve-out:

“Subsection (1) does not preclude any law, program or activity that has as its object the amelioration of conditions of disadvantaged individuals or groups including those that are disadvantaged because of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability.”

As well as a separate carve-out for “aboriginal people.”

Any government can therefore discriminate against any group so long as they declare their intent to be to balance out some supposed advantage.

Hitler insisted that ethnic Germans were disadvantaged by the Jews in 1930s Germany. Mussolini insisted that Italians were disadvantaged as a nation in the 1920s. Jim Crow began in the US South because white Southerners saw themselves as disadvantaged by the North.

And so it goes.