White males need not apply Internal e-mail reveals hiring ban at Public Works Tom Blackwell National Post Saturday, November 19, 2005 A major federal department has temporarily banned the hiring of able-bodied white men in an unusual move critics say could spark a backlash against the very disadvantaged groups it is meant to help. Managers in the Public Works department must hire only visible minorities, women, aboriginals and the disabled, except with written permission from their superiors, David Marshall, the deputy minister, ordered in an e-mail circulated yesterday. The policy, designed to address shortfalls in the department's employment-equity goals, will...