If 10 deputy ministers hosted a town hall meeting at the Downsview Public Library in Toronto or the Richmond Public Library in Richmond, B.C., and invited the public to attend, about half the audience would be white and half non-white from various backgrounds. Unless the deputy minister of Environment Canada was among them, the deputies would be an all-white group. Increasingly, the governors are not reflecting the governed.

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