Equality and Diversity in Employment in Canada

Canada has become a multiracial, multicultural and multireligious society (Jain, 1987, 1993), whose growing ethnic diversity includes a large number of non-white Canadians, called visible minorities (VMs). They consist of several non-white groups including Chinese; South Asians (for example, East Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan); Blacks (for example, African, Haitian, Jamaican, Somali); Arabs (for example, Armenian, Egyptian, Iranian, Lebanese, …