In March 2001, the Law Foundation struck a Diversity Committee with a mandate to identify goals and objectives in the area of diversity and to develop an action plan as a means of welcoming and affirming diversity.

In June 2002, the Law Foundation adopted the following statement on diversity:

The Law Foundation recognizes the diversity of the people of British Columbia and endeavours to be responsive to the diverse public of British Columbia in its workforce, board and grant making.

This Diversity Profile first developed in 2002 in response to the Diversity Committee’s request for demographic information for British Columbia that shows the population diversity in each geographic region, so that the Law Foundation and others have a clear idea of how each element in the diversity definition is reflected in the province. Most of the data in the 2002 edition was from Statistics Canada’s 1996 Census of Canada. The second edition, published in 2003, incorporated data from the 2001 census. This third edition reflects data released from the 2006 census.

The Law Foundation’s working definition of diversity is as follows:

Diversity includes age, different abilities, socio-economic level, education, ethnicity, language, family, gender, marital/relationship status, race, religion, work experience, geographic size and location, and sexual orientation.

The Diversity Profile provides information on these areas of diversity, and is a resource that the Law Foundation can use to fulfill its mission. The Law Foundation hopes that this profile will encourage funded groups and others to be more responsive to the diverse communities they serve.

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2003 Version, First Edition -  download in pdf format. (4mb)

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