> As of July 1, the university had met its target of nine chairs who are visible minorities, but had only 14 women (short of the target of 19) and did not have two professors with a disability or one Indigenous scholar in the program.

When you start subdividing the 1,600 positions into smaller and smaller units, would you really expect every single university to have exactly the right number of candidates to fulfill its quotas? So are universities now going to have separate 'pools' of professors so as to fill all these positions?

I think most people would want "the best" people appointed irrespective of which "group" someone might decide they belong to. 

And I suspect most professors would like to feel they were appointed because of the quality of their work rather than the university needing to fulfill a quota. 

I wonder if there is going to be any followup to see if imposing these quotas has increased or decreased the quality of research. 

Probably not.