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Dr. Malinda S. Smith Profile picture
@MalindaSmith
Mar 12, 2022 • 9 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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How do we ensure CDN #highered not create/reinforce inequities among equity-deserving groups?

Feds launching major review of Employment Equity Act

‘We have an opportunity to make the kinds of changes that will result in more fair and equal opportunities for everyone to succeed’
What should I say to the Employment Equity Act Review Task Force?
Is there a basic literacy about EE, what’s happening, not happening (why), need for equity action? Any accountability?

Task Force on the Employment Equity Act Review Canada.ca
canada.ca/en/employment-…
We need accountability. There’s resistance to basic compliance, let alone anything substantive, transformative:

Backgrounder: Employment Equity Act Review Task Force: Canada canada.ca/en/employment-…

Task Force on the Employment Equity Act Review: Canada canada.ca/en/employment-…
We do need to counter the despair, the cynicism, the harm of inequities. There are opportunities for input

Share your views: Employment Equity Act Review Consultation: Canada canada.ca/en/employment-…

Task Force on the Employment Equity Act Review: Canada canada.ca/en/employment-…
Share your views: Employment Equity Act Review Consultation: Canada.

Background materials online for review. Be mindful of complacency, cynicism. I’ve already seen some call for return to myth of neutrality, a rejection of Employment Equity. They’re wrong canada.ca/en/employment-…
Employment Equity Review Act—Policy brief 1: Defining and expanding equity groups

How to define and modernize the Employment Equity Act’s designated groups?
•women
•“Aboriginal peoples”
•persons with disabilities
•members of visible minorities canada.ca/en/employment-…
Brief cèdes too much

Policy brief 2:Better supporting equity groups
“A core objective of the Act is to help recognize and remove barriers to employment faced by designated groups and to adopt measures to correct their underrepresentation in the workplace” canada.ca/en/employment-…
How we go wrong. Framing of the case for Employment Equity: Surely the “business case” rests on inviolability of human rights and dignity?

Penalties?👇🏿

Policy brief 3: Accountability, compliance, enforcement and public reporting of employment equity canada.ca/en/employment-…
No to
👎🏾privileging single group
👎🏼to one-size-fits-all
👍🏿Intersectionality matters

Annex-Policy Brief 2:Barriers to employment equity for equity groups under the fed jurisdiction
• Systemic or common barriers– Summ
• How the barriers affect each group
canada.ca/en/employment-…

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Dr. Malinda S. Smith Profile picture
May 20, 2023
Who in Alberta expects the stereotypes about Black people, education and “ghetto culture” to be repudiated?

Education and employment facts

“Canada’s Black population faces varying job prospects despite equal education. Here’s why” @globalnews (Feb 2023) globalnews.ca/news/9458122/c…
There’s a public figure peddling long debunked anti-Black stereotypes, including that Black Albertans don’t want education

The evidence requires analysis

A portrait of educational attainment and occupational outcomes among racialized populations in 2021 www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recense… Image
Idea of “Ghetto culture” in Alberta is nonsense.

Stereotypes say more about those peddling them than the people being maligned. The Black folks in Canada, as in Alberta, are heterogeneous.

Diversity of the Black population in Canada: An overview (2020) www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/89-657-… Image
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Jul 30, 2022
Equality as sameness isn’t Substantive Equality

Equality isn’t Equity

Equity is not “special treatment”

Difference isn’t deficit

Call it racism if your decision-making *knowingly* disadvantages Black, Brown people

No to images that equate “Liberation” with removing barriers
Most images that try to capture the distinction between equality and equity are rooted in notions of normalcy, could be conceptualized as ableist. They rarely focus on supports for, say, a diverse range of abilities.
This one from Santa Rosa County Health includes a wheelchair
Think mobility: what do dominant conceptions of equality vs equity suggest?
(Both on the left and right the concept of “equity” and what it requires is rarely teased out. Most conflate “equity” with “equality”. (Even “diversity” is flattened into a perjorative as dead/genocide)
Read 8 tweets
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Jul 28, 2022
“Judy Wilson is aKukpi7 (chief) of the Neskonlith Indian Band in BC…calling on Pope Francis to use his..visit to repudiate the Catholic Church's Doctrine of Discovery.”

Pope faces calls to renounce the Doctrine of Discovery at the heart of colonialism cbc.ca/radio/asithapp…
Dr Matt Wildcat: The Pope’s apology may be just the first step. But perhaps it should be the last /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…
Fmr Senator Murray Sinclair: Pope's apology doesn't acknowledge church's role as 'co-author' of dark chapter:

“Apology fails to recognize 'full role of the church in the residential school system,' former senator says” @CBCNews cbc.ca/news/canada/ma…
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Mar 13, 2022
Lovely day outdoors despite the rare grey skies. Fantastic weather for a long trek with one of my good pals and the pup. We started at the Peace Bridge (designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava), and traversed many of the pathways and bridges along the Bow River. #yyc
So many exquisite sites along the Bow River. When I first moved to Calgary I lived in the Eau Claire neighbourhood and loved it, especially proximity to the Bow and good urban trails, great cafés and restaurants.
The sky, cloud formation, river and afternoon sun and light were all spectacular. #yyc
Read 6 tweets
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Mar 12, 2022
Equality vs Equity: durable obstacles to equity: myths of neutrality, objectivity, colourblind, allwhite panels/#manels.
Big obstacle?
The gap betw principles & ‘how-to’. Why would those who have comfortably coexisted with, benefitted from, rationalized status quo, be the change?
Smart people admit there’s no level playing field.

Repeatedly reminded of fmr Bennington College prez Liz Coleman’s claim that when it comes to change, academe is often notable for “learned helplessness”.
If playing field isn’t level what is to be done?
Academe: path dependency
“Why don’t we have any fresh ideas around here?”

Reproduction of sameness impacts ideas, perspectives, creativity, innovation.
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Jan 15, 2022
Thinking, still, about what “we” in the #cdnpse do to “welcome” ppl we’ve kept out and pushed out of universities and colleges.
What’s changed in the “we” who are *doing the heavy-lifting or the obstacles “we/they” face?
Which “we” are *doing the change work?
Formidable obstacles Image
A Seat at the Table: the *same people, at all the tables, sharing the *same ideas: the social reproduction of sameness

Philomena Essed’s research on the social injustice of sameness is helpful: cultural cloning, social facsimiles

“Why don’t we have any fresh ideas around here?” Image
What efforts are “we” who are academic leaders making to disrupt the social reproduction of sameness—in people, ideas, knowledges, perspectives?
If diverse teams are smarter why are we not choosing smarter?
Knowledge, experience, excellence aren’t limited to any demographic group Image
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