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Progress on one 'ism', failure on another
An inspiring YouTube
video from Equal Voice has
been making the rounds of
late, featuring several female
Canadian MPs -- from Tory
Lisa Raitt to Liberal Catherine
McKenna to Green Leader
Elizabeth May -- talking to
their "20 -year-old" selves
about success in the political
and other arenas.
At the same time, a study
from Carleton University pro-
vides good news about
women in the public service.
The study finds women now
hold more than 55 per cent of
public service jobs and 46 per
cent of all executive positions
below the deputy minister
level.
There's a catch of course:
Women held only one-third
of deputy minister jobs at the
time the study was
conducted, between 2014
and 2015. Interviews sug-
gested the political leaders
who appoint deputy minis-
ters tend to pick people "who
look like them and that
becomes difficult to change,"
the lead researcher said.
Yet in a government where
the federal cabinet was delib-
erately chosen to reflect Can-
ada's diversity, it might not be
long before the appointments
of deputy ministers do too.
People "who look like them"
will be white, brown, gay,
straight, aboriginal, Muslim.
Unfortunately, amid the
fading sexism in government,
there's sharpening ageism. In
a recent speech to federal
executives, Clerk of the Privy
Council Michael Wernick
bluntly said it was time for
baby boomers to collect their
stuff and move along.
"We have now reached a
point where almost 40 per
cent of the public service are
over the age of 50, he said.
"Baby boomers, it's time to
go.
Really? No one is telling
men to go (they make up 45
per cent of the bureaucracy),
or white people to go, or
Ontarians, or any other
potentially over -represented
public service group.
Obviously we want to
attract younger people, as we
want to attract more aborigi-
nals, people of colour, workers
with wider skills and different
experiences. But opening up
a new "ism" -- "ageism" -- isn't
social progress. It just sounds
like fashion over fairness.
Wernick admitted his
message isn't about
(REUTERS/Adrian Wyld/Pool/Files)
Green Party leader Elizabeth May.
achievement. "Individually
you make tremendous con-
tributions," he told the
boomers. "But collectively it
is a problem."
The only problem here is a
lack of imagination. Finding
ways to make the public service
appealingtotheyoung-- many
of whom would prefer to
work almost anywhere else --
seems an obvious starting
point. Attacking those who
have served for decades is as
dumb as the days when we
didn't want women around
either.
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MPP Lisa Thompson — Changes to wind turbine noise testing measures do not go far enough
The proposed changes to
wind turbine noise testing by
the Ministry of Environment
and Climate Change
(MOECC) do not go far
enough in addressing the
negative impacts of Industrial
Wind Turbines (IWTs), says
PC Critic for Environment
and Cap -and -Trade Lisa
Thompson.
The Ministry recently
posted its proposed changes
to the Environmental Bill of
Rights website, but advocacy
groups such as Wind
Concerns Ontario (WCO)
have slammed the changes as
"minor tweaks", calling
instead for a complete over-
haul of the way complaints
and compliance issues are
investigated.
"Rather than implement
any substantial changes to the
manner in which IWTs and
wind proponent companies
operate, Minister Murray is
more concerned about sign-
ing his next costly green
energy contract, saidThomp-
son. "Meanwhile, Ontarians
are being forced to live with between December and Feb -
increased electricity costs, ruary, when more noise com-
and to register environmental plaints tend to be filed), or
and health complaints to a testing for low -frequency
system that is proving not to noise.
work. This is completely Also of concern is the con -
unacceptable." tinued ability of wind compa-
The changes proposed by nies to conduct their own
the MOECC fail to adopt cru- review of compliance issues,
cial investigation and testing with no defined timelines or
measures, including noise verification and oversight of
testing under similar weather data collection by ministry
conditions and at the location officials.
identified in a complaint, all- "The Environment Minis -
season noise -testing (no test- ter has a responsibility to
ing is currently conducted ensure that his ministry is
investigating and collecting
accurate, verified data and
addressing the complaints of
citizens in a timely fashion,
but it appears that he is more
concerned about the next
environmental photo -op
than the well-being of Ontari-
ans. The Minister must take
immediate action to imple-
ment effective investigation
and testing mechanisms and
address compliance prob-
lems and complaints in a
timelymanner"
- MPP Lisa Thompson
FROM THE ARCHIVES
15 years ago...
• It is suggested by a Huron East school committee representa-
tive that C.H.S.S. and Seaforth District High School add grade
seven and eight students from their respective grade schools to
their high schools. He said this because Seaforth District High
School was in danger of closing and they were coming up with
solutions to avoid that. He told C.H.S.S. not to think that their
school would be saved from closure if Seaforth's high school
closed and C.H.S.S. took in their students.
• A reported vehicle theft tumed out to be a case of a car driving
itself. A 61 year-old woman reported her car was stolen after she
left it running when she went into the bank. She came out and
witnessed a man driving the vehicle away. As the police were
being called, another man came in and said he saw a vehicle
driving itself. He stopped the car and brought it in to the police.
The woman was advised of safe driving techniques including
tuming her vehicle off and locking her doors.
25 years ago...
• Tyler Hessel, current Bluewater mayor, received the Ruth Hay-
man Elliott Memorial Award at the graduation exercises at Huron
Centennial School.
• Ontario's Culture and Communications Minister, Rosario Mar-
chese, called for public hearings on the issue of sex -role stereo-
typing in broadcasting. "The continuing negative stereotyping of
women in the mass media, including broadcasting, is detrimental
to Canadian society in general and to the interests of Canadian
women in particular," he said. petition put on by the University of
Waterloo.
35 years ago...
• Over 240 Clinton area teenagers raised $473.80 for the Clinton
Hospital Building fund for an addition on the building. They held a
roller-skating Roller-Rock-A-Thon with live music.
• Local municipal councils faced a "tremendous challenge" ahead
because of provincial and federal govemment cutbacks, observed
Jack Riddell, MPP for Huron -Middlesex. He said that both govern-
ments had "backed themselves into a financial comer [...] and they
have little room to maneuver".
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