text: Discrimination is reducing, whether for women or minorities. What I argue is that it hasn't completely ended yet.
  
  A lot of my Chinese colleagues who were laid off moved to China into senior positions. They were high taxpayers, and their move back to China is a loss for Canada.
  
  People use meritocratic and non meritocratic filters during a layoff. I have seen completely useless people survive several rounds of layoffs due to their connections, looks or other non job related factors.