Chinese immigrants in Canada

The timing of the policy expansion suggests that this might have been a purposeful move by the Canadian government to respond to the exodus of the rich investors and entrepreneurs from Hong Kong. [...] Differences between immigrants from the Mainland, Hong Kong, and Taiwan on the one hand, and those from the rest of the world on the other, are even greater. [...] Among all other Chinese candidates, he was promoted as the first and only candidate from Mainland China, implying that he would be better able to represent the voice of the Mainland Chinese immigrants.1 In the commercial sector, the diversity of Toronto’s Chinese immigrants is reflected spatially. [...] For one thing, evidence suggests the economic recession of the early 1990s and the severe downturn of the IT industry in the past several years hit immigrants particularly hard (Statistics Canada 2003). [...] With the tax data, we were able to examine the economic performance of the Chinese immigrants using the various types of income as indicators.