To Be FAIR

It’s a relative term subject to the contents of your Life Lens.

What is meant by the phrase “to be FAIR”? Well, it depends on your perspective, doesn’t it?

A Business owner, for example, who hires a new employee on the basis of MERIT, is being FAIR to all of his employees, customers and shareholders (if any). When a candidate is selected from many competing job candidates based on his or her relevant skills, knowledge, cost, productivity and compatibility with others in the work culture, the hiring process is also FAIR.

Government managers, on the other hand, are required to prioritize job candidates based upon additional SOCIAL JUSTICE criteria. These criteria introduce institutional bias and systemic discrimination into the hiring process. This is UNFAIR because candidates who meet all prescribed “intersectional” criteria may not be the best MERIT choice where future job performance is concerned. This, however, is not unusual in the public sector because the job performance is not as important in a government workplace that operates as a monopoly enterprise with a guaranteed source of revenues - taxation.

It’s true that not all hiring activity is FAIR in both sectors. A business manager is just as human as a government administrator and just as subject to potential bias. However, UNFAIR hiring practices are systemic in the public sector if intersectional criteria must also be applied. Profit and loss is the life blood of a business enterprise. If intersectional criteria were also imposed on its hiring practices, this would predictably lead to sub-optimal performance of the business in its competitive market segment.

A provincial election is scheduled for June 2. Mark Snow, Leader of the Ontario Libertarian Party, promotes Freedom Of Choice as the best policy for FAIRNESS in every domain of social interaction. In fact, the entire OLP platform is based on the same Four Principles for a Civil Society that were popularized by Maxime Bernier, Leader of the federal People’s Party of Canada in 2019: Individual Freedom, Personal Responsibility, Respect and Fairness.

RESPECT and be FAIR to your fellow citizens and VOTE LIBERTARIAN in every election!

DISCLOSURE: I first joined the Ontario Libertarian Party in 2007, am a past Chairman, and have been an OLP candidate in five past elections. We advocate for Less Government in the belief that all levels of government in Canada have exceeded their optimum size, cost, and scope of authority for a genuine democracy to be sustained. Only Less Government can reduce that harm than has been done from excessive government influence on what remains of fading civil society in this country.