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The Community of Federal Visible Minorities (CFVM) was created in 2012 by Canadian federal public servants after the Treasury Board Secretariat stopped funding the National Council of Visible Minorities and was dissolved. CFVM represents Visible Minorities (VMs) (as defined by the Employment Equity ActW.K. Yousufzai (talk) 22:01, 19 February 2023 (UTC) ) in the Federal Public Service. It was inaugurated by Senator Donald Oliver who reported in the Senate of Canada on December 11, 2012 W.K. Yousufzai (talk) 22:01, 19 February 2023 (UTC) as follows: "As honourable senators know, a few years ago the National Council of Visible Minorities in the Federal Public Service collapsed after more than 10 years of existence. This left thousands of visible minority public servants without a voice to represent their concerns at the national level. The CFVM will help replace the void created by the death of the NCVM. The group was officially created in September 2012 on the recommendation of an ad hoc committee on visible minority issues that was initiated in July 2010. More than 80 visible minorities from various federal departments and provinces attended the inaugural meeting last night."

CFVM provides an independent forum for our members to address their concerns and advance their well-being, professional advancement, and representation within the federal public service of Canada. CFVM aims to shape the national identity of Canada, by ensuring that our federal institutions are built on the foundations of merit, inclusiveness, and respect for all Canadians, regardless of their ethnicity, background and any other identities.

CFVM collaborates with other networks and supports Departments and Agencies by providing advice for policy and program design, and often as panellists on discussion forums on issues of equity, racism, harassment and discrimination. As public service employees surveys W.K. Yousufzai (talk) 22:01, 19 February 2023 (UTC) have demonstrated, there is a significant amount of work required to ensure that federal workplaces are free of harassment, discrimination, racism and Islamophobia as it pertains to visible minorities.

According to the Clerk of the Privy Council's 29th Annual Report to the Prime MinisterW.K. Yousufzai (talk) 22:01, 19 February 2023 (UTC), 43,122 employees identified as Visible Minorities as of March 31, 2021, equal to	18.9% of the total population of 319,601 employees. The representation of Visible Minorities among the Executives was significantly less, at 12.4%, which indicates that VMs are clustered at lower-level jobs and do not get equitable opportunities for career progression, in spite of the provisions of the Employment Equity Act, and announcements and policies of the Government aimed at improving the representation of VMs and other employment equity groups.

By comparison, according to the Employment Equity Act: Annual Report 2021W.K. Yousufzai (talk) 22:01, 19 February 2023 (UTC), 26.0% of employees in the Federally Regulated private sector identified as VMs. This makes sense because according to the Statistics Canada census 2021, 26.5% of Canadians identify as VMs, and because a vast majority are immigrants seeking economic opportunities in Canada, they constitute a higher proportion of the Canadian workforce.

In 2016-17, the current president of CFVM, co-chaired a Joint Union/Management Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion established by the President of the Treasury Board of Canada which prepared a report, "Building a Diverse and Inclusive Public Service"W.K. Yousufzai (talk) 22:01, 19 February 2023 (UTC), which provided 44 concrete recommendations to the Treasury Board, to increase diversity and inclusion in the federal public service of Canada.