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The Quebec government’s Equal Access Employment Program (EAEP) targets five vulnerable, underrepresented groups in the public service. The anglophone minority is not currently one of them. However, in the past few decades, anglophones have experienced a decline in their institutional and economic vitality despite high levels of academic achievement and growing bilingualism. Compared with francophones, anglophones now live in less favourable socioeconomic conditions, with lower annual median incomes and higher unemployment and poverty rates in most of the 17 administrative regions of Quebec. They also report higher levels of discrimination and linguicism than the francophone majority. Their participation in Quebec’s public service remains very low (1%) when one considers that mother tongue anglophones make up 10% of the provincial population. In light of the above, we recommend considering including English-speaking Quebecers as an EAEP target group. This paper focuses on the EAEP that the Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse (CDPDJ) administers for 338 public organizations.