The following questions collect information in accordance with the Employment Equity Act and its Regulations and Guidelines to support programs that promote equal opportunity for everyone to share in the social, cultural and economic life of Canada.

Responses to these questions about your background are voluntary and do not have an impact on the outcome of your nomination. We ask for information about your ancestry, gender and whether you have an ongoing disability to help us better understand the diversity represented in the Canadian Honours System. We look at the combined responses across all nominations and not at individual responses.

First Nations (North American Indian) includes Status and Non-Status Indians.

Disability is an umbrella term, covering impairments, activity limitations and participation restrictions. An impairment is a problem in body function or structure; an activity limitation is a difficulty encountered by an individual in executing a task or action; while a participation restriction is a problem experienced by an individual in involvement in life situations.

2SLGBTQI+ represents Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and additionally people who identify as part of sexual and gender diverse communities.