Indigenous or Aboriginal peoples are the original inhabitants of Canada and their descendants who identify themselves as First Nations, Inuit, or Métis. North American Indians or members of a First Nation include status, treaty or registered Indians, as well as non-status and non-registered Indians.

For the purpose of employment equity, do you consider yourself:

The Employment Equity Act includes women as a designated group because they have faced, and continue to face, barriers to employment.

For the purpose of employment equity, do you self-identify as:

Persons with disabilities are those who have a long-term or recurring physical, mental, sensory, psychiatric, or learning impairment and who consider or perceive themselves to be at a disadvantage in employment by reason of that impairment, or who believe that an employer is likely to consider them to be at a disadvantage in employment because of that impairment. This includes persons whose functional limitations due to their impairment have been accommodated in their current jobs or workplaces (e.g. using technical aids, changes to equipment or other working arrangements).

Examples of disabilities include, but are not limited to: blindness or visual impairment (unable to see or difficulty seeing, glaucoma; do not include yourself if you can see well with glasses or contact lenses); coordination or dexterity impairment (difficulty using hands or arms, such as grasping objects or using a keyboard); deafness or hearing impairment (unable to hear or difficulty hearing); mental health disorder (depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, eating disorder, substance or alcohol abuse); mobility impairment (difficulty moving, walking long distances or using stairs); speech impairment (unable to speak or difficulty speaking and being understood); other disabilities (learning, developmental, chronic pain, etc.).

For the purpose of employment equity, do you consider yourself:

Racialized people or visible minorities are people who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour, regardless of their birthplace or citizenship. This definition does not include Canadian Indigenous or Canadian Aboriginal Peoples as they are considered a separate designated group.

Examples of racialized persons include, but are not limited to:  African Descent; East Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean); Non-white Latin American (Indigenous people from Central and South America); Non-white West Asian; North African or Arab (Egyptian, Iranian, Lebanese, Libyan); South Asian/East Indian (Indians from India, Bangladesh, East Indian from Guyana, Pakistani Trinidad, etc.); Southeast Asian (Burmese, Cambodian, Filipino, Laotian, Thai, Vietnamese); People of mixed origin (with one parent in one of the visible minority groups listed above).

For the purpose of employment equity, do you consider yourself: