Toronto Pearson Airport and the Institute for Research in Public Policy

Syrian refugees: Syrian refugee Osama holds his baby daughter as they arrive at the Welcome Centre at Toronto Pearson Airport on Dec. 18, 2015, according to Huffington Post Canada. The Stats Can report, which was compiled in partnership with researchers at UBC and the Institute for Research in Public Policy, is the first to address "business ownership and job-creation activities of immigrants," it says. And it offers more proof that Syrian refugees could be good for Canada economy in the long run. Its main finding was that immigrants, including refugees, tend to surpass Canadians at private business ownership and self-employment — proportionally, anyway. It also examined entrepreneurship in a number of categories: incorporated private companies, unincorporated self-employment, and people who drew most of their income from self-employment. The report drew its conclusions by contrasting immigrants who arrived in various years against "comparison groups" that included mostly Canadians, and people who moved to Canada before 1980. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.