Affimative Action In B.C.

Affirmative action is not beneficial for all businesses and post secondary institutions in British Columbia. As far as races go, it does not promote equality, but rather, judges people on their background, counteracting the entire point. And to hire someone less qualified simply to “even things out” does not necessarily mean they are best for the job or have the best credentials, if the only prerequisite is gender or race. According to Thomas Sowell, author of “Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study”, affirmative action results in loss of incentive for one to preform at his or her best. The preferred will become sloppy in work ethics, because exceeding is unnecessary. Yet with the policy of affirmative action, it is they who will get the jobs, be working in our province, and accounting for “net-losses for society as a whole”. And those who are fully qualified will be out of a job. To base job positions or entrance to post secondary institutions on a premises of physical attributes or social backgrounds is counter progressive, and just flat out a bad idea.