Imagine a Canadian firm doing business in a northern Canadian community in which 10% of working-age people are Indigenous (and almost all of the rest are white, with a very small number of individuals of South Asian descent). Imagine the firm employs 5,000 people and only 94 of them (about 2%) are Indigenous. Imagine that the firm is expanding, and looking to hire an additional 200 employees over the coming year. When hiring, the company typically looks at work experience, references, and other factors, using a points system with a maximum score of 10/10. The higher your points, the more likely you are to be hired.

The firm is considering two plans:

Plan A) Announce that over the next year, all Indigenous job applicants will automatically have 3 extra points added to their score.

Plan B) During an interview process, all job applicants (Indigenous and non-indigenous) will be asked about their lives and their work histories. Those that claim to have experienced significant discrimination will have 1, 2, or 3 extra points added to their score.

Which process would be better, ethically, and why?

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