On October 13, 2022, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP released 2022 Diversity Disclosure Practices – Diversity and Leadership at Canadian Public Companies. According to the report:
- Across all CBCA corporations, just under 10% of board positions are held by directors who are members of visible minorities, Indigenous peoples or persons with a disability.
- Across all TSX-listed companies:
- more than one in every four directors is female as women now hold 26% of the board seats. (up from 10% in 2015)
- only 11.6% of boards have no women directors (down from 47.1% in 2015)
- One-third of all board seats among the S&P/TSX Composite Index companies are held by women
- Among the S&P/TSX 60 companies women hold 36% of all board seats.
The full report is available here.