Drawing on the comprehensive database of the SME Financing Data Initiative, this article provides a Canada’s population of visible minorities has grown portrait of visible minority entrepreneurs. […] Over the past 25 years, the dominant (SME Financing Data Initiative) countries of origin of Canadian immigrants have In the following analysis, visible minority-owned SMEs are shifted from Europe to East and South Asia and South compared with the profile and financing of all other Canadian America. […] Figure 10 Top Ten Sources of Financing in 2000* Commercial loans and lines of credit Commercial credit cards Government loans and grants Trade credit from suppliers Leasing Personal savings of owner(s) Personal line of credit of owner(s) Personal credit card of owner(s) Personal loan of owner(s) Loans from friends and relatives of owner(s) 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% Visible Minority-Owned SMEs Other S […] This is consistent with past research that found that They are similar in size, operate in all sectors of the visible minority entrepreneurs were as likely as economy and provide a significant contribution to other entrepreneurs to obtain debt from banks and the Canadian economy. […] For information series of articles on specific segments of the regarding the methodology of the Survey on marketplace and a component of Industry Canada’s Financing of Small and Medium Enterprises, contact reporting efforts on SME financing.

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