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The IWC was founded in 2000 by a small group of Filipino-Canadian workers and their allies. The idea of a centre came from the experience of two of the founders: Tess Tesalona and Marco Luciano. [1] Both had previously worked as union organizers and became aware of the lack of resources available to immigrant workers. [2]
The Filipino Canadians (French: Canadiennes d'origine philippine); (Filipino: Mga Filipinong Kanadyan/Kanadian) are Canadians who have a Filipino descent or ethnicity. The Filipino Canadians is the second largest subgroup of the overseas Filipinos, surpassed only by the United States, and one of the fastest-growing minority in Canada.
According to Statistics Canada, at the time of the 2011 Canadian census the city of Montreal proper had 1,649,519 inhabitants. [5] A total of 3,824,221 lived in the Montreal Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) at the same 2011 census, up from 3,635,556 at the 2006 census (within 2006 CMA boundaries), which means a population growth rate of +5.2% between 2006 and 2011. [6]
Conrad Santos – first Filipino Canadian elected in Canada (elected as MLA in Manitoba (1981–1988, 1990-2007), and first Filipino Canadian to run for the leadership of a political party (Manitoba NDP, 1989)
Another study, published in 2017, found that Filipino American youth were at higher risk of depressive symptoms during adolescence and young adulthood compared with their Chinese American peers.
Filipino Americans have high labor force participation rates and 67% of Filipino Americans are employed. [409] Filipino Americans are more likely to live in larger, overcrowded (8.7% of Filipino housing units compared to 3.5% of total population), multi-generational (34%) households compared to the general population.
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Montreal's economy is the second largest of all cities in Canada [1] and the first in Quebec. [2] Montreal is a centre of commerce, industry, technology, culture, finance, and world affairs. In 2022, Metropolitan Montreal was responsible for $233 Billion CDN of Quebec's $425 Billion CDN GDP , [ 3 ] with a population of 4.37 million people. [ 4 ]