Many Canadians associate Filipinos with hard-working, church-going, friendly immigrants and temporary foreign workers who toil hard to send home remittances to their impoverished loved ones in their South-East Asian homeland. This is especially the view in Metro Vancouver, which has more than 80,000 Filipinos working as everything from nannies to nurses, fast-food workers to cooks. But there is a new twist developing in Filipino-Canadian relations.
Canadian church leaders are travelling to the vast island nation ...
