TORONTO — Canadian-born visible minorities face the highest barriers to steady, well-paying jobs of any group in the country, a circumstance expected to worsen as huge numbers of non-white young people enter the labour market, says a Canadian Labour Congress study to be released Wednesday.
The CLC bluntly describes the situation as racial discrimination and suggests parallels to the underlying causes of riots last autumn by jobless and alienated visible-minority young people in the suburbs of Paris and other French cities.
Unemployment rates by group
Arab/West Asian 14%
Black 11.5%
Latin American 10.5%
Southeast Asian 9.8%
South Asian 9.6%
Korean 8.7%
Chinese 8.4%
Multiple** 8.3%
Other 8.1%
Japanese 6.1%
Filipino 5.6%
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The CLC bluntly describes the situation as racial discrimination and suggests parallels to the underlying causes of riots last autumn by jobless and alienated visible-minority young people in the suburbs of Paris and other French cities.
Unemployment rates by group
Arab/West Asian 14%
Black 11.5%
Latin American 10.5%
Southeast Asian 9.8%
South Asian 9.6%
Korean 8.7%
Chinese 8.4%
Multiple** 8.3%
Other 8.1%
Japanese 6.1%
Filipino 5.6%
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