A person with a disability has a long-term or recurring physical, mental, sensory, psychiatric or learning impairment, and 1) considers themself to be disadvantaged in employment by reason of that impairment, or 2) believes that an employer or potential employer is likely to consider them to be disadvantaged in employment by reason of that impairment, and includes persons whose functional limitations owing to their impairment have been accommodated in their current job or workplace.

A person in a visible minority group in Canada is someone (other than an Indigenous person as defined above) who is non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour, regardless of place of birth.

An Indigenous person is a North American Indian or a member of a First Nation, Métis or Inuit. North American Indians or members of a First Nation include status, treaty or registered Indians, as well as non-status and non-registered Indians.