Filipinos discovered Canada more than 400 years after the United States.

Yet the Filipino Canadian community is now just second to the US in terms of permanent residents contributing to the country’s foreign exchange reserves, strengthening the peso, keeping the Philippine economy robust and saving the government from being called to task for failure to generate employment—a main factor pushing close to 5,000 Filipinos daily to seek employment overseas.

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