Podcast #258: Canadian Bureaucracy and Its Discontents

Nick Osmond-Jones is a former researcher at the Office of the Ombudsperson in British Columbia , Canada .

He resigned from his job because he felt that he was not able to speak out openly about what he saw as an increasingly censorious atmosphere of ideological social-justice lockstep.

He leaked the slides that accompanied an office-wide DEI training to my colleague Jon Kay .

DeI, diversity, equity, and inclusion ideology is starting in the 2010s already.

DeI writer says he noticed the impacts of DEI and equity ideology starting in 2010s .

He says it first affected his work in the office just that you noticed the rituals starting to slip in. Rituals and just a change in tone.

There were some extraordinary DEI trainings that took place in your workplace.

The one that you leaked the details of to Quillette , which upset and embarrassed the people back at the Ombudsperson’s Office .

NOJ : (10:17.722) Things started to become more extreme moving into the 2020s .