Canada's first Filipina federal minister arrives carrying a lot of expectations
Census data shows Filipino-Canadians have a unique demographic profile, said analyst André Bernard of Statistics Canada.
Filipino wage-earners average $26.59 per hour, as opposed to a national average of $33.22 per hour and $31.23 per hour for all racialized groups. In June of this year, just 4.9 per cent of Filipino workers were self-employed, compared to 13 per cent of the general population. "Being a business owner myself, and having witnessed a lot of the obstacles that folks from our community face, it's not easy to start up a business coming from an immigrant community, whether you're a newcomer or even a subsequent generation. Because a lot of our family members ... my family included, when they come to a country like Canada, they are in survival mode.
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