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Previous standard - Visible minority
Status
This standard was replaced by a new departmental standard on June 15, 2009.
Definition
Visible minority applies to persons who are identified according to the Employment Equity Act as being non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour. Under the Act, Aboriginal persons are not considered to be members of visible minority groups.
Visible minority refers to whether or not a person, under criteria established by the Employment Equity Act, is non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour. Under the Act, an Aboriginal person is not considered to be a Visible Minority
Classification(s)
1
Visible minority
1.1
Chinese
1.2
South Asian (e.g., East Indian, Pakistani, Punjabi, Sri Lankan)
1.3
Black (e.g., African, Haitian, Jamaican, Somali)
1.4
Arab/West Asian (e.g., Armenian, Egyptian, Iranian, Lebanese, Moroccan)
1.5
Filipino
1.6
South East Asian (e.g., Cambodian, Indonesian, Laotian, Vietnamese)
1.7
Latin American
1.8
Japanese
1.9
Korean
1.10
Other
2
Non visible minority
2.1
Aboriginal
2.2
White
