Did you know?
- This year marks 20 years since the Government of Canada signed an official declaration to designate May as Asian Heritage Month.
- Almost half of the immigrant population in Canada was born in Asia.
- From 2017 to 2019, 63.5 percent of newcomers to Canada were born in Asia (including the Middle East)
- In 2016, the South Asian and Chinese groups were the two largest visible minority groups in Canada, each with a population exceeding 1 million.
Filipinos were the fourth-largest visible minority group. Similar to the Arab population, the number of Filipinos almost doubled in 10 years.
https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/dai/smr08/2022/smr08_262