Martin Loney demolishes - rather convincingly - the rhetoric that underpins race and gender preferences in the Canadian workplace. He demonstrates that women and visible minorities, contrary to being victims of discriminatory employment practices, are at a conspicuous advantage when it comes to raises, promotions, and securing highly prized appointments. He also plots the astonishing growth of the feminist and multicultural "grievance industry" which comprises a vast network of feminist academics and group-think equity bureaucrats.

Contributing little to society other than advocacy propaganda and a drain on the public purse, equity advocates have used their alleged "victim" status to pad their bank accounts and carve out lucrative jobs in the public sector. Worse, this cartel of special-interest groups has assiduously mounted an intimidation campaign designed to muzzle anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy of affirmative action.

Loney's investigative prowess exposes the pressure tactics that equity zealots employ to invent ever-more absurd and anti-democratic legislation for the purpose of favoring designated groups over white males. He lays bare the biased research and "meretricious" use of statistics that equity advocates depend on to sway politicians into adopting preferential hiring policies. These policies simply add more layers to an already bloated bureaucracy. Embittered and self-interested preferential hiring activists have successfully duped an accommodating federal government by brandishing a misleading platform that operates under the pretense of catch-phrases like "social justice" "equity" and "progressive reform". And finally, Loney examines the intrinsically immoral practice of asserting the salience of race and gender at the expense of merit, fairness and intellectual honesty. This well-researched book is essential reading.