The real obscenity in the federal court decision below re. pay equity for female CPP employees is in the discriminatory theory of pay equity. Pay equity is an application of radical feminist theory and its notion of systemic discrimination. Pay equity is not a synonym for “equal pay for equal work.” Equal pay for equal work is a principle of equality. Pay equity is “equal pay for work of equal value.” It’s an exercise of warfare against the free market. (Another way of saying this is that feminists, as socialists, want equal outcomes rather than equal opportunity.) Feminists advancing pay equity theory – as with all other socialists – hate the outcome of free decisions. Free market considerations by business owners and consumers result in various jobs being rewarded differently. Feminists invented a theory to enable politicians to rationalize the use of force to require business owners to pay women more money than free market considerations would justify. It also enables politicians to justify the use of taxpayer dollars to pay female workers more than market wages for public sector positions.

How is this done? Note what the article says, “…the tribunal found the nursing group, which is 95 per cent female, performs substantially similar work as a group of predominantly male doctors.”

Feminists pretend that it is possible and morally right to objectively compare different vocations and jobs. On the basis of these comparisons, jobs which seem to require similar skill sets, and where those jobs dominated by men are financially rewarded at a higher level than a sector dominated by women, are used to demand higher wages for the women. This is an attempt to use the power of the state to override the organic outcomes produced by supply and demand in a free market context. It reflects a totalitarian spirit, and is wholly incompatible with a free and civilized society.

Yet, the Canadian courts’ unswerving commitment to socialism, may force the federal government to forcibly confiscate many millions of taxpayer dollars to transfer to exploitative women. Self-serving female employees are taking advantage of an abusive, anti-Canadian ideology to further impoverish taxpayers and Canada’s public morality. Meanwhile most Canadians are oblivious to the ideological foundation for this agenda, and the radical, anti-Canadian nature of this egalitarian philosophy. They have been duped into thinking it reflects a commitment to equality, when it is in fact a discriminatory socialist agenda. Genuine equality is about equality before the law and equality of opportunity, not about state-enforced manipulation to achieve parity (or “equality”) of outcome.

This abusive notion of Pay Equity is built upon several layers of theory and moral imperative, all of which are incompatible with justice, liberty and equity:

  • that the notion of systemic discrimination is real
  • that power differentials in society such as between men and women that are immoral
  • that the state has the right and obligation to re-engineer society to eliminate the power differentials and alleged systemic discrimination
  • that egalitarianism is a moral good and a legitimate rationale for state coercion
  • that group rights is a legitimate concept
  • that group rights is a legitimate rationale for state coercion
  • that free enterprise is evil
  • that equality of opportunity is an inadequate, if not illegitimate, principle

The list could be enlarged. Pay equity is a morally repugnant public policy and should no longer be funded at taxpayers’ expense.

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The Regina Leader-Post – November 19, 2010
Court sides with nurses
By Don Butler, Postmedia News

Nurses employed by the Canada Pension Plan could be in line for a big payday after the Federal Court quashed a human rights tribunal decision that denied them compensation for decades of gender discrimination. In a decision released this week, the court ruled the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal erred in law when it refused to award the nurses compensation for lost wages in 2009. It also said the tribunal breached the nurses’ right to natural justice by denying them compensation for pain and suffering. The court ordered the tribunal to strike a new panel to assess, in a proper manner, the nurses’ claims.

The finding opens the door to a substantial monetary award for the 413 nurses, since the tribunal has already ruled that the government’s discriminatory practices date back to 1978.

In 2007, the tribunal found the nursing group, which is 95 per cent female, performs substantially similar work as a group of predominantly male doctors. Both assess the eligibility of applicants for Canada Pension Plan disability benefits. But the nurses earn half as much as the doctors and aren’t even treated as medical professionals. Based on that, the tribunal ruled the government had discriminated against the nurses on the basis of their sex.

But in a 2009 decision, the tribunal declined to order compensation, saying an expert witness for the nurses had failed to reliably quantify the size of the pay differential between them and the doctors. That, said the court, was an error in law. “The difficulty in determining the amount of the loss cannot be used as a reason to refuse to make an award,” it said. “The tribunal has the duty to assess the lost income or wage loss on the material before it, or refer the issue back to the parties to prepare better evidence.”

Read the rest here.