Evaluation of Canada's Action Plan Against Racism / : Évaluation du Plan d'action canadien contre le racisme

CAPAR, a five-year plan, was launched by the Government of Canada (GoC) in 2005 with the goal of ensuring that all Canadians were included and had a role in society and the economy regardless of background, race or ethnicity; that all barriers to full and active participation and opportunity were eliminated; and that the justice system was equipped to respond to overt manifestations of racism in s [...] CAPAR was led by the Multiculturalism Branch of the Department of Canadian Heritage (PCH) and then by the Citizenship and Multiculturalism Branch, CIC (following the transfer of the Branch from PCH to CIC). [...] In addition, CAPAR is in alignment with numerous international initiatives and commitments, such as the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racism, and work being done by the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. [...] The results was designed to coordinate recommendation that improvements to the of this process will have implications for the future performance measurement design of the horizontal initiative will need to design of the horizontal initiative. [...] PCH/CIC reported on CAPAR results and accomplishments through the Annual Report to Parliament on the Implementation of the Canadian Multiculturalism Act, and Canada’s periodic reporting to the United Nations (UN) on the implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD).