the CanadaVisa Team - 23 July, 2015
China has been the top source country of immigrants for years, but now the Philippines has taken over the top spot for immigrants and temporary workers (combined). 19,064 permanent residents and 15,254 temporary workers from the Philippines arrived in Canada in 2007. Aside from Americans, more Filipinos arrived in Canada as temporary foreign workers than any other nationality.
Jack Jedwab, executive director of the Association for Canadian Studies, says that the increase is partly explained by Canada's new focus on temporary workers, and the fact that many Filipinos fill caregiver and service-sector jobs in British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario.
In terms of the number of permanent residents in Canada, Filipinos are the third largest group, its size more than doubling in the past five years. Chinese-Canadian and Indian-Canadian are the two largest groups of Permanent Residents, although their numbers have dropped in the past few years.
In 2007, Canada admitted 236,758 permanent residents and 115,470 temporary workers. Annual temporary foreign worker numbers have nearly doubled since 1998.
