Hi Rationalthought,

In Canada, the Employment Equity Act, which allows employers "to achieve equity" contains four designated groups: women, people with disabilities, Aboriginal peoples, and visible minorities. The only group it doesn't contain is white males, even though in Vancouver, the majority of people are foreign born. So where I live, I am a minority.

An example pertains to the RCMP, a significant federal employer, where “Just to get an interview, white males needed a score of 115 on the police aptitude test, women needed a 96 and visible minority candidates an 86. Such quotas are said to permeate promotions too.”

" In the past, RCMP recruiters and many other employers have openly admitted to white male recruits that the RCMP and others would not hire them because they were white males."

Source: http://immigrationwatchcanada.org/2005/07/06/rcmp-pursuit-of-equity-employment-for-visible-minorities-policies-has-become-a-truly-public-national-embarrassment/