We see age-ism as a prejudice or discrimination on the basis of a person's age, and we believe that this is a reason for employers not wanting to hire younger people as opposed to older people. In 2011, Statistics Canada came out with the unemployment rates, and it showed that the unemployment rate among people fifteen to twenty-four (15-24) years, the rate was the highest at 14.2%. We looked through all of the scenarios for why this would be, and what could have caused this number to be exponentially greater than other age groups, and came to the conclusion that age-ism is the more likely factor for why this was so. The reason being for our conclusion was that employers today, have an understated view of young people with the changes of society in Canada over the past few years. Also, with recently coming out of a major financial crisis, they find themselves looking to pick up from where they left off, and instead hire professionals who are likely to know more about the job based on experience. With some amount of understanding to their hesitance we believe that in order to pull out from a recent economic dip, to pick up back and become profitable and efficient, employers wouldn’t want to take the chance by hiring younger people, as more than likely would opt to hire older, more experience workers to get the job done faster, without spending on any additional costs. This seems as a likely choice among employers around the world. The Ontario Human Rights Commission has identified age-ism as a bias and discriminatory factor in employment for younger workers. It is stated, that based on their findings, employers should always take into consideration the ages of their workers, and as long as they fill the job specific requirements, they should not be discriminated against, and to this accommodate them based on that. The other factor that we outlined was based on employers not hiring younger workers due to the change in the society in Canada over the past few years. Canada has seen a major influx of diversity over the past decades, making the applicant pool much larger for employers, but with the recent introduction of social media, and other social factors, things are not the way they were. Younger people today in the eyes of older professionals are more expressive and socially inclined to everything. This was certainly not the case a few years ago, where what is seen today could be seen as something negative or forced ripe back then. Employers discriminate based on this, as they see it as being immature, and not worthy of a professional career and may not think that young people are deserving because of this inability and lack of drive that people had many years ago. In our opinion this is not so, we see that employers, based on what is shown in today’s media, among other things, they have a bad look on how young people are today, as we see young people as the future driving force of the world, and once someone is feels entitled to a job, and feel that is their fit, they would try to do it at the best of their ability.