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Canadian Population: Cent and Job Competitions

canadian population: But the Liberals' merit-based process for appointments has screened out 61.8 per cent of visible-minority candidates as insufficiently qualified, compared to 37.6 per cent of applicants who are not visible minorities, according to CTV. Visible-minority applicants who made it past that cut and into job competitions were less likely to be recommended or appointed. Documents from the Privy Council Office obtained through the access-to-information law, show that as of last year, 55.5 per cent of appointees to federal agencies, boards and organizations were women, slightly above their proportion in the Canadian population. This is one of the reasons why we need to know what constitutes merit, said Kathy Brock, a politics professor at Queen's University who has studied the changes in the appointments system. Months after taking power in late 2015, the Liberals changed how the government makes hundreds of appointments each year to positions such as the boards of Crown corporations and tribunals that make decisions on benefit payments and immigration claims. What are the criteria that are being used to screen people, and embedded in that criteria are there certain considerations that have a negative impact on those communities Despite the changes, final say still sits with the responsible minister or the Prime Minister's Office, meaning a partisan lens remains in place on appointments, Brock said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.