Rights Advocates: School Survey and Cbc News

rights advocates: Experts, human rights advocates and recently the government of Ontario have endorsed the collection of race-based data as a means of uncovering inequality and better understanding the needs of racialized groups, according to CBC. Racialized is a term used to describe people who identify as being part of a visible minority. As part of an investigation of race and racial discrimination at Canadian universities, CBC News discovered that most of the country's largest institutions have an incomplete picture of the racial diversity within their student populations, with more than 60 schools saying they don't collect the data. Ryerson University student Renee Vettivelu says she would have no problem indicating on a school survey how she identifies racially. She's Tamil-Canadian and says her parents helped to foster her appreciation for her culture through community events and Saturdays spent at Tamil school. CBC News Personally I wouldn't mind sharing my background and my identity, I'm quite comfortable with it, proud of it, said Renee Vettivelu, a second-year aerospace engineering student at Ryerson University in Toronto. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.