Job losses in July highest among racialized communities, StatsCan data shows

'I think the issue with racialized people not returning to work is more about whether or not they’re going to be hired,' says Arjumand Siddiqi, who holds the Canada Research chair in population health equity. 'It’s more an issue of labour market discrimination.'

Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains, pictured in July 2019, oversees Statistics Canada, which, for the first time on Friday, shared disaggregated data in the Labour Force Survey. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY PALAK MANGAT

August 7, 2020

Statistics Canada’s latest report on the workforce shows racialized Canadians bore the brunt of the job losses in July, with their unemployment rate higher than those who identify as white. According to the agency’s

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