Mon Oct 2, 2023 – 8:31 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Small- and medium-sized construction companies in the province of British Columbia are being offered an extra cash incentive if they hire first-year apprentices who “self-identify” as LGBT, disabled, or anything other than a white heterosexual male.
The British Columbia Construction Association (BCCA) said in an announcement last Wednesday that there is still $4 million available to be given out to construction companies that apply for its Apprenticeship Services project.
This project, which is funded by the Government of Canada’s Canadian Apprenticeship Strategy’s Apprenticeship Service initiative, allows businesses to receive a $5,000-per-employee incentive cash bonus if they hire first-year apprentices for 39 Red Seal Trades. However, if those apprentices self-identify as LGBT, a person of color, a woman, or a disabled person, the cash inventive doubles to $10,000.
The BCCA said the cash incentive is “part of an equity deserving group, as part of an effort to redress underrepresentation in the trade.”
The reality in Canada today is, with the help of the federal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, construction companies are being incentivized to hire anyone other than able-bodied, white, non-gay men.
Thus far, the BCCA says that
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