grants are very diferent to seed stage financing and normally preced it.

Could you link to some government grants for recent immigrants? Thanks!

Why don't they just give this to everyone? Canadian government really loves to favor the new Canadians over the old ones. I don't think it should matter...

The government doesn't "favour new Canadians over old ones." That's crap.

The government offers funding to new immigrants because they lack many of the social networks that people who were raised and educated here possess. Also, it's a pretty good investment, as immigrants have a stronger entrepreneurial bone than the average Canadian, due to self-selecting as go-getters (i.e. emigrating).

Sorry, immigrants make better entrepreneurs? Is this a fact or just something you pulled out of thin air? Not to mention the fact that allowing only immigrants to benefit from this is discriminatory and directly contradicts your first sentence. What about all the potential native entrepreneurs that might not get their chance to shine due to not being given the same advantages as the foreigners? You should work for government, I think you would fit right in.

A wild guess: immigrants arrive in a new country with very little support from family with existing savings, homes and the like. They often need more of a "leg up" than someone whose family has been in the country for generations.

Sorry, but I don't like Hacker News turning into reddit threads where unproven speculation gets read as truth.

Care to provide some substance to your claims with examples of precisely what kinds of funding supports (in $$$) the Canadian government actually gives to new migrants?

There's a common meme out there that refugees get more money than welfare recipients, and it's outright false. (Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/do-government-assisted-refug...)

we've an extremely weak, hyper image-conscious liberal government... what are you expecting?

I wish Canada was a socialist country...