Statistics Canada and Canada Liberals

Canada: Immigrant experiences in Canada Liberals shift immigration focus to family reunification Another 19.6 per cent of immigrants were unincorporated self-employed persons, compared with 16.1 per cent for the Canadian-born group, according to CBC. Longer-term immigrants, who had been in Canada from 10 to 30 years, also appeared to be more entrepreneurial than the Canadian-born, Statistics Canada said. By the time they'd been in Canada nine years, about 5.3 per cent of immigrants owned a private company, meaning they formed new businesses more quickly than the Canadian-born population, where the rate is 4.8 per cent. It found 5.8 per cent of longer-term immigrant tax-filers were owners of private incorporated companies. Smaller companies, fewer employees The federal agency found private incorporated firms owned by immigrants tended to be smaller than those owned by their Canadian-born counterparts. The study was based on tax data from the year 2010, looking at immigrants who had arrived in 2004 and in the 10 to 30 year period leading up to 2010. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.