Who Is A Visible Minority?

[RB]

The visible minority definition is enforced by law because of a history relationship of groups disproportionately represented and kept in a vicious cycle of economic despair with limited access to economic opportunities e.g. permanent jobs, pay inequities, career advancement etc.

This is official definition of Visible Minority

"Visible Minorities are persons (other than Aboriginal persons) who are non-Caucasian in race or non-White in color."

Here are the groups included:

Total Population

Visible minority

Chinese

South Asian (e.g., East Indian, Pakistani, Punjabi, Sri Lankan)

Black (e.g., African, Haitian, Jamaican, Somali)

Arab/West Asian (e.g., Armenian, Egyptian, Iranian, Lebanese, Moroccan)

Filipino

South East Asian (e.g., Cambodian, Indonesian, Laotian, Vietnamese)

Latin American

Japanese

Korean

Non visible minority

Aboriginal

White

Base on the original propose of visible minority I would like to question folks from Regent Park, Toronto who are consistently kept below the poverty line in a depressed socio economic cycle and are Caucasian, they fit into visible minority concept no, or a concentrated demographics of a particular culture that fits into the category of visible minority but sincerly believe and protest to be placed in such a category as visible minority

so I question this self-identification data capture, generally I think it works favorably for this group, but find greater than 60% would not identify, so this law not needed any longer