Quote (JessiWan @ Dec 8 2022 09:16pm)
Hello, in my country, we have laws against employers discriminating against potential hires based on certain grounds. Race, gender, national origin...etc etc. I am sure we are all familiar with this phenomenon.
See here:
https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/rights-workplace.htmlWhat I don't get is, why is it any of the government's business whether private businesses want to discriminate or not? I get it, the government should be for everybody, so they decide that they will not discriminate. This is fine. But if I were a business owner, then I am a private entity. Whether I want to discriminate should not be the government's business.
Imo, the government can only intervene when there is a criminal matter. For example, when a private individual has raped or murdered. However, discrimination is not a criminal matter. It's a civil matter. And it's only against the law because the government says it is. There is nothing inherently wrong or immoral about discrimination, except to the government and maybe the political left.
You're exactly right. Freedom of association should be protected.
The alternative presented by handcuffs is predicated on the notion that government owns you and all of 'society' and has the moral imperative to dictate your life choices and whether or not you are allowed to make a living.
The government also uses such laws as a pretense for persecuting people who aren't doing anything wrong.
Worker gets fired? you must be racist. Go to court.
Hire competent workers based on merit, but your workforce has 'too many' white males according to government? Get dragged to court and robbed or shut down.
The "Employment Equity Act" outlined in the link actually describes
state-mandated discrimination based on race, gender and disability for all businesses. (and an onerous process for proving you are doing enough to discriminate and collecting information for the government)