Status of Women committee  I'll just echo Grace-Edward by saying that we're very happy to be talking to you about this. We're apologetic that, when we're looking at the national data, we are actually talking to you about data that is, in fact, 12 years old. We'll explain some of the reasons why that is th

Status of Women committee  We set out to replicate this analysis with the national household survey data. The results that we got were inconsistent with other research and were very odd. We went back and forth with Statistics Canada, as we sometimes do on these occasions, to see if we were misunderstanding

Status of Women committee  No, it wasn't a change in the questions. It was that it went from a census to a sample. We know that people who are more privileged are more likely to answer those voluntary surveys than people who are less privileged, who can have low incomes and be racialized. As a result, the

Status of Women committee  Correct.

Status of Women committee  It's going to be available in October, and we're very much looking forward to having reliable data again, and we are finalizing our order to StatsCan.

Status of Women committee  Okay, I'm sorry about that.

Status of Women committee  Those are at a very high level of aggregation, so this isn't identifying the women who are engineers. In particular, in one of those categories you discussed, you could have a lot of clerical workers included in there. That's one of the limitations of this high level of aggregati

Status of Women committee  I think there are moments when it can be helpful to step back. Because racialized women work disproportionately for the minimum wage, if you increase that wage, they will be the major beneficiaries of that change. As Grace-Edward mentioned about affirmative action, if you take po

Status of Women committee  My apologies, because we should probably have started with that. The definition is based on what we have from Statistics Canada. What we have from Statistics Canada is a variable called “visible minority”, which is based on the federal employment equity legislation. I have a fo

Status of Women committee  The visible minority status is self-reported and refers to the visible minority group to which the respondent belongs. The Employment Equity Act defines visible minorities as persons other than aboriginal people who are non-Caucasian in race, or non-white in colour. The census re

Status of Women committee  We based all of this analysis on the labour market share. While it's grown since then, as I say, this is based on—

Status of Women committee  I have with me general populations from 2006. It's 16.2% of the total population in 2006. Grace-Edward, do you have the 2011 numbers?

Status of Women committee  So call it about—

Status of Women committee  It's “tenish”.

Status of Women committee  I think sometimes in these comparisons you compare people who are working full-time for a full year and add controls for some of those variables. I think when we think about the impact of racism, we have to really step back. It has an impact on the educational choices that people