To view the current Policy/Program Memorandum No. 119, you may follow the following link to the Ontario Ministry of Education website. This policy was issued on July 13, 1993.

→  http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/extra/eng/ppm/119.html

This is what remains as a result of the Lewis Commission’s findings. Back in 1993, the government set in motion a multi-pronged approach to address systemic race and equity issues.

See→  http://www.peopleforeducation.com/news/antiracism-ethnocultural-equity

At that time, the anti-racism and equity policy included:

• the appointment of the first Assistant Deputy Minister whose responsibility included anti-racism and equity;
• the inauguration of a new Equity Department in the Ministry, which
  would, among its many duties, examine Ontario curriculum with a view to addressing bias, racism and exclusion;
• anti-racism training for Ministry staff;
• plans for principals’ courses and all teacher training to include anti-racism education;
• the development of new employment equity policies and new policy to address the lack of diversity in new teacher candidates;
• a directive to school boards that every board must develop and implement its own equity and anti-racism policy and strategies.
  

The Ministry of Education Equity Department had funding, and there was funding in place to assist boards in developing local equity and anti-racism policy.

In 1995, before the policy had been fully implemented, it was scrapped by a new government. The Equity Department was closed, the review of the curriculum was cancelled and, though the policy memoranda still exist on the books, boards are no longer held accountable for developing local antiracism and equity policies. Provincial funding for equity programs and policy was cut.