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Task force recommends focus on racialised groups, inclusion

TORONTO: Marie Clarke Walker, a veteran Jamaican-Canadian labour leader, has expressed satisfaction with the recommendations of a task force set up to to undertake the most comprehensive review of Canada’s Employment Equity Act since its...

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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