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This report is a groundbreaking study, with new, never before published data, on the growing economic racial divide in today's Canada. Canada's Creeping Economic Apartheid" is the first comprehensive study in Canada documenting how racism shapes the way our non-white population lives and works in Canada. While previous studies have addressed specific trends involved, or examined particular impacts in individual communities, this report pulls together data from a wide range of sources, delivering an all-inclusive and disturbing picture of how racism is establishing a stranglehold on Canada's economy and culture. In presenting the findings the author, rejects the term "visible minorities" used by the federal government to define "persons, other than Aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in color". The old term categorizes people as a minority when in some urban areas such as the City of Toronto the people in this category outnumber whites. Nor does it convey the fact that racism acts as the dominant force setting people apart. The author has therefore chosen the term "racialised groups" which more emphatically conveys this crucial point. (Au)