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Judi Ann T. McLeod (born 1944) is a Canadian journalist. Formerly a reporter for a series of newspapers in Ontario, she now operates the conservative website, Canada Free Press (CFP). Early life and career
In Canada, a visible minority (French: minorité visible) is defined by the Government of Canada as "persons, other than aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour". [1] The term is used primarily as a demographic category by Statistics Canada , in connection with that country's Employment Equity policies.
Federal electoral districts represented by visible minorities during the 42nd Canadian Parliament (2015–2019) marked by party colour. This list comprises persons who belong to a visible minority group who have been elected to the federal House of Commons, legislative assemblies of provinces and territories, and members appointed to the Senate.
A visible minority is defined as "persons, other than Aboriginal people, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour". [1] Pierre De Bané became the first Visible Minority and Arab Canadian to hold a Cabinet position when he was appointed Minister of Supply and Services in 1978 by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
The husband and wife team John and Judi McLeod founded the newspaper to rival The Brampton Times. [1] A free weekly with initial distribution of 40,000, it first published in late March 1984. [1] The Audit Bureau of Circulation says the paid circulation of the Times was 6000 in September 1983, down from 7700 a year before.
The concept of visible minority has been cited in demography research as an example of a statistext, i.e. a census category created for a particular public policy purpose. [ 1 ] [ 7 ] Since 2008, census data and media reports have suggested that the "visible minorities" label no longer makes sense in some large Canadian cities due to ...
In 1961, less than two percent of Canada's population (about 300,000 people) were members of visible minority groups. [74] The 2021 Census indicated that 8.3 million people, or almost one-quarter (23.0 percent) of the population reported themselves as being or having been a landed immigrant or permanent resident in Canada—above the 1921 ...
In addition, throughout Canada's history there have been laws and regulations that have negatively affected a wide variety of races, religions, and groups of persons. [11] [12] [13] Canadian law uses the term "visible minority" to refer to people of colour (but not aboriginal Canadians), introduced by the Employment Equity Act of 1995. [14]