Watch STAND’s News Conference on Parliament Hill On the morning of Tuesday, May 30, STAND Canada, along with Arsham Parsi of the Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees, and New Democrat MP Jenny Kwan hosted a news conference on Parliament Hill regarding the refugee transportation loan program. Click here to view our news conference. Please take two minutes to share this video or… Read More
Canada’s Immigration Loan Program: A Barrier to Settlement and Integration for Refugees By Laura Truesdell, Blog Writer Of all the categories of immigrants accessing the Immigration Loan Program (ILP), approximately 98% are Government Assisted Refugees (GARs) or Privately Sponsored Refugees (PSRs). A study of the program between 2008 and 2012, prior to the influx of Syrian refugees to Canada, shows that: 43.7% of loan recipients came from… Read More
Connecting the dots: Linking ILP recipient statistics with obstacles to immigrant economic success Special Guest Blog Post by Cyrus Gearhart Sie Even by relaxed standards, most Canadians probably agree that Canada is significantly impacted by immigration. But how much do we know about it? For example, how many people knew about the Immigration Loan Program (ILP) before last year? By now, you might be familiar with the ILP and STAND… Read More