Indigenous businessman decries Canada Summer Jobs edict as ‘insidious’
Just days before the extended deadline for the Canada Summer Jobs program, David Acco still can’t reconcile what the federal government wants employers to do as part of a new application process.
“It’s crazy,” Acco says from Montreal. “I would never tick the box they want me to tick. They should be looking at this strictly in terms of somebody being employed, not in terms of what I believe.”
But Acco’s business, Acosys Consulting Services Inc., might be of significant interest to a government that has made Indigenous reconciliation a cornerstone of its first mandate.
Acosys is not a religious institution, a faith-based charity or a non-governmental organization, unlike most organizations protesting the application’s “attestation clause,” which obliges them to support the “right” to abortion.