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Jamie Sarkonak: Commons report recommends DEI by stealth

Drop identity quotas but ramp up mandatory DEI training, says committee

This month, the House of Commons committee on science and research recommended a ban on diversity quotas in federal research programs, along with all references to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the granting process. But you should probably hold your cheers: that very same committee has also suggested an even tighter embrace of DEI.

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The paradoxical recommendations conclude a study on federal research granting criteria that has been underway for two-ish years. While they leave much to be desired, they at least signal that a stigma is beginning to grow around race-based policy, forcing some of its greatest advocates to retreat from their brash stances.

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At present, the federal funding agencies discriminate against researchers as a matter of routine. Some grant programs, such as the Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program, operate with hard identity-based requirements as a means of fighting systemic discrimination — which in turn is a form of systemic discrimination, because it excludes whole categories of applicants on the basis of race or sex.

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