The funny thing is that government employment equity programs are typically measured based on "what percentage of your workforce is visible minorities?" and "what percentage of your workforce is handicapped?". But I work as a project manager on a tech team so I have a team of programmers working for me and they are mostly from Asia. Immigrants from China, Korea, India, Sri Lanka, etc.. So my particular team is actually short on caucasians!! But what irks me is that the program is supposed to go deeper than "visible minorities".... nobody is asking why there are so few black programmers.
As for answering the question for a Crown Corporation, you are better off checking off white rather than leaving it blank. Most of these applications are screened by the computer first before any human looks at them. And if the computer finds things that are incomplete, well, out they go....
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