A recently established standing committee oversees matters relating to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) and the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB).
The committee is made up of elected Members of Parliament from each recognized political party. In Canada, a party is only recognized if there are 12 or more members in the House of Commons.
The 12-person committee is 25% Anglophone. Statistics Canada’s most recent study(2016) tell us that 68% of our population is comprised of Anglophones.
The irony arrives in no-uncertain terms. In any situation where “racialized” Canadians are under-represented, multicultural advocates scream for equal representation. In all cases of over-representation, “equality advocates” are silent as the lambs.
