Filipino Canadians

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Filipino Canadians (French: Canadiens d'origine philippine; Filipino: Mga Pilipinong Kanadyense) are Canadians who have a Filipino descent or ethnicity. The Filipino Canadians are the second largest subgroup of the overseas Filipinos, surpassed only by the Filipino Americans, and one of the fastest-growing minority in Canada. Only a small population of Filipinos lived in Canada until the late 20th century. At the 2016 Canadian census, 851,410 people of Filipino descent lived in Canada, mostly in urban areas. The majority of Filipino Canadians speak Tagalog. Filipino Canadians are the third-largest Asian Canadian group in the nation after the Indian and Chinese communities. They are also the largest group from Southeast Asia in the country. Between the 2011 and 2016 censuses, the Filipino community in Canada grew from 702,200 to 820,100, a growth of about 7%, compared to the rest of Canada, which grew by 5% during the same time period. By the 2021 census, Filipino Canadians enumerated 957...

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