Feds have spent over $1B on DEI workshops for public servants since 2016
The federal government employed nearly 600 bureaucrats last year solely to push the Liberal diversity, equity, and inclusion agenda, and the true number could be even higher.
Author: Quinn Patrick
The federal government employed nearly 600 bureaucrats last year solely to push the Liberal diversity, equity, and inclusion agenda, and the true number could be even higher because some departments failed to report on their so-called “representation goals.”
Some of the federal government’s largest employers, including the RCMP and the Departments of Health, Justice, Immigration, Natural Resources and Public Works, declined to report their figures.
Meanwhile, the Department of Foreign Affairs said there were too many to count.
“The department manages an extensive network of 182 missions in 112 countries,” read the inquiry. “It undertook an extensive preliminary search in order to determine the amount of information that would fall within the scope of the question and the amount of time that would be required to prepare a comprehensive response.”
According to the Immigration department, providing the data was “not possible in the time allotted.”
“The department is committed to providing an inclusive, equitable and respectful work environment for all,” it said.
A staggering $1.049 billion has been spent by the government on diversity, equity and inclusion programs since 2016, according to a previous Inquiry Of Ministry tabled in the Commons in September.
First covered by Blacklock’s Reporter, the records were provided in response to an Inquiry Of Ministry tabled in the Commons, which counted 577 employees working on diversity programs in 2024.
Conservative MP Vincent Ho requested the disclosure.
The Department of National Defence had 84 staff assigned to diversity and spent $22,600 in 2024 for Dr. Rachel Zellars of St. Mary’s University of Halifax to be a “guest speaker for a Black History Month event.”
The Department of Fisheries billed taxpayers $47,697 last year for the 10 employees working on diversity programs to attend a workshop on “ethical space and engagement preparedness.”
A total of 95 employees were charged with heading up diversity at the Department of Industry, which allotted $10,997 for Black History Month to begin “freeing ourselves of imposter syndrome.”
The Department of Veterans Affairs had 11 employees working on diversity programs in 2024, spending $19,320 on a “Kairos Blanket Exercise.”
Consultants with Lakehead University conducted the exercise as an Indigenous sensitivity workshop.
“The Kairos Blanket Exercise is an experiential workshop that explores the nation-to-nation relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Canada,” reads a mission statement from Lakehead. “Blankets arranged on the floor represent land and participants are invited to step into the roles of First Nations, Inuit and later Métis peoples.”
Well there is at least 600 useless people that can be let go . It is a start at least .
DEI….nothing but a complete scam, and a way to waste billions and billions of taxpayers money. It’s NOT government money, they have no money and they create no money, it’s the taxpayers hard-earned money that they throw around here, and throw around there. I’m not naïve enough to believe that there’s not money laundering going on as well, at some level, involving government officials, just like the Democrats did via Ukraine. Money is changing hands, otherwise, this whole insane program wouldn’t even be a thing. Like climate change, if there wasn’t any money to be made, it’s so insane, it wouldn’t even exist as an idea.
I would like to know why exactly, the Canadian government is involved financially, using taxpayer’s money in 112 foreign countries….182 “projects”….and what exactly do those “projects” entail?
The level of corruption and foreign interference is off the charts, and even though it’s Canadian taxpayers money, they seem to have absolutely zero say in how their money is being spent. It’s clearly not being spent here to benefit Canadians, which is what taxes are supposed to do.
It would probably blow people’s minds if we had an actual number of money that is being wasted in fraud and mismanagement… I guarantee you, it’s off the charts!