{"id":516,"date":"2019-06-17T18:17:52","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T18:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/inclusiveleadership\/?post_type=chapter&p=516"},"modified":"2019-06-27T17:43:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T17:43:21","slug":"4-6-create-environments-that-are-more-welcoming-for-racialized-communities","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/inclusiveleadership\/chapter\/4-6-create-environments-that-are-more-welcoming-for-racialized-communities\/","title":{"raw":"4.6 Create environments that are more welcoming for racialized communities","rendered":"4.6 Create environments that are more welcoming for racialized communities"},"content":{"raw":"When Statistics Canada published the results of the 2016 census, we learned that more than 7.7 million Canadians (one in five) are members of a \u201cvisible minority\u201d, and 1.7 million people (4.9%), are Indigenous[footnote]MacDougall, A. and Valley, J.M. (2018). The inclusion imperative: In 2018, building a better board means building a board that looks like Canada. Retrieved from Osler<\/a>.[\/footnote]. Although these population groups have grown, racialized communities, including Indigenous Peoples, are still under-represented on governance boards.\r\n\r\nSome of the same strategies used to increase the number of women on boards, have been used to increase the representation of racialized communities on governance boards:\r\n