Unconscionable

As a former Customs and Excise (now Canada Border Services) employee, I am outraged that a group of  Hindu priests refused to deal with women officers on the front line and some cowardly manager ordered the female officers off the line at Pearson and replaced them by men! How could this happen?! We are such a chickensh-t country it's appalling.

Never mind as a former employee, I am outraged as a woman and a Canadian. What's next? Someone refuses to be dealt with by a gay officer? Or a person-of-colour? The union has stepped in and is demanding to know who ordered their removal. Good for them. For once they're defending their employees and Canadian laws and values.  Naturally, the perpetrator has neither stepped up, nor tried to justify this outrage.  As I said, it's chickensh-t behaviour.

Just imagine going to India and refusing to deal with a front-line Customs agent because he/she was Hindu.  Just feature it!  Just imagine going to an African country and refusing to deal with an agent because he/she was black!  Only Canada would break the law to accommodate personal whims.   

It's absolutely stunning that this happened. What is wrong with people?!

 

My generation fought tooth and nail to secure the right to any job and these people are shoving us back two generations!  If it was a woman manager who ordered this I will be wilder, but I suspect it was a woman.  The male customs officers I knew were well-versed in Canadian law and simply would not have acquiesced to this ridiculous and illegal request.  Officer training in Rigaud has obviously come completely unglued and I can just imagine the number of "sensitization" courses that are now mandatory.  Last time I checked, the Canada Border Services Agency was a law enforcement agency, not a kindergarten.

 

"Sensitivity" and "political correctness" have gone way too far -- to the point where we break the law to accommodate some prehistoric, cave-man request.  For once, I am almost speechless.