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Canada ready to spar with UN over ‘visible minorities’
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
Jul 5, 2011
Canada faces a new grilling before a United Nations anti-racism watchdog — but will defy the Geneva-based body over the question the government’s use of the term “visible minorities.” A delegation to be led by Citizenship and Immigration Canada will tell the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination that Canada considers the term to be appropriate. The committee signalled when it grilled Canada four years ago that the government was being racist by using the term.
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