![]() This was up from 16.2% in the 2006 census (Statistics Canada, 2013). The 2011 census noted that visible minorities made up 19.1% of the Canadian population, or almost one out of every five Canadians. This is a contentious term, as we will see in this chapter, but it does give us a way to speak about the growing ethnic and racial diversity of Canada. Visible minorities are defined as “persons, other than Aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour” (Statistics Canada, 2013, p. ![]()
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