The federal government says it supports listing Black and LGBTQ people among groups facing systemic workplace barriers under the Employment Equity Act, CBC News has learned.
The Liberal government is backing the legislative change after a task force report recommended the move.
A source told CBC News earlier on Monday that Ottawa "broadly supports" that recommendation and others from a task force that reviewed the legislation. The government made an initial commitment Monday to modernize the act, the source said.
Labour Minister Seamus O'Regan and the task force chair, McGill University law professor Adelle Blackett, presented the committee's findings outside the House of Commons foyer on Monday.
