Depending on the week and whether employment equity (or EE) targets are being met, the Canadian Forces periodically closes some of its approximately 100 occupations or trades to any applicants but women. The information is contained in so-called weekly “processing cheat sheets” used by recruiting staff — some of which were obtained by the National Post — and was confirmed by a military source. Other occupations, though, were still identified as those where “priority is given to EE applicants. The sheets say that Indigenous candidates either are “not required to write” or “must write but don’t need to pass” the CFAT, the Canadian Forces Aptitude Test. Since April of 2016, the percentage of women in both the regular and reserve forces has gone from 14.9% to 15.4% in February of 2018.

Source: National Post April 19, 2019 13:52 UTC