Designated Groups
The Employment Equity Act designates four groups as the beneficiaries of employment equity:
1) Women
2) People with disabilities
3) Aboriginal people, a category consisting of Status Indians, Non-status Indians, Métis (people of mixed French-Aboriginal ancestry in western Canada), and Inuit (the Aboriginal people of the Arctic).
4) Visible minorities
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