 Visible minorities comprised 31.7 % of the population in the 2011 census. The five most numerous visible minorities are Blacks (9.1 %), Arabs (6.4 %), Latin Americans (4.2 %), South Asians (3.3 %), and Chinese (2.9 %). Visible minorities are defined by the Canadian Employment Equity Act as "persons, other than Aboriginals, who are non-white in colour".
