What Went Wrong? The Hidden Costs of Canada’s Diversity Policies

Are Canada’s DEI hiring programs creating the very discrimination they were meant to end?
Historian Christopher Dummitt joins Afolarin on Revaluate Podcast to examine the evidence behind bias in hiring and the unintended consequences of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) policies in Canada.

Historian Christopher Dummitt and I examine:
• Whether qualified people are losing opportunities because of identity quotas.
• How DEI metrics are reshaping public-sector and corporate recruitment.
• Why “diversity” may now be producing new forms of inequality.
• The danger of turning representation into ideology rather than fairness.
• How diversity spending reached massive levels without delivering expected outcomes
• Why these initiatives created new forms of inequality
• The structural contradictions inside public institutions
• The pressure placed on leaders, HR, and faculty to meet identity metrics
• How diversity programs can produce diversity problems
• The disconnect between goals, data, and real-world results
• Why people inside the system are afraid to talk about it

It’s a sober look at public policy, critical thinking, and the balance between merit and representation in modern Canada.

This is not a debate about labels — it’s an investigation into broken systems, misaligned incentives, and policies that undermine themselves.

Summary:
This educational video dives into a critical discussion about diversity and leadership within university faculties. We explore the importance of a merit system and qualifications when considering hiring opportunities, particularly in the context of racial preferences. This social commentary examines the complexities of the "diversity delusion" and its impact on academic institutions.

Chapters:
(00:00) The legitimacy of diversity and inclusion
(00:44) How diversity inadvertently creates diversity problems
(02:24) DEI fails in empirical results
(03:15) Canada's DEI $1 billion waste

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