Wendy Cukier reads a message on her smart phone as she stands in the foyer of the Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa, Friday March 27, 2015. Black and racialized people are underrepresented and often almost non-existent on boards in eight major cities across Canada.
A new study from Ryerson University's Diversity Institute has found both groups lacking on the boards of large companies, agencies and commissions, hospitals, educational institutions and in the voluntary sector in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, Halifax, Hamilton, London and Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld