CANADA TO ADMIT DISPLACED PERSONS
OTTAWA, May 1. Canada’s present _ immigr J tl T policy necessarily fell into two parts —measures designed lor immediate application and long-term plans, said the Prime Minister (Mr W. L. Mackenzie King) in the House of CornMr King agreed that Canada needed a larger population if she were 'to thrive and retain hold on. halt a continent; but he indicated that transport difficulties prevented the application of a general immigration policy for some time. The emphasis meanwhile, he. added, should be laid on refugees. Immigration officers were being sent to Europe to examine the situation among refugee groups and to arrange for the early admittance of several thousand displaced persons. The Canadian Government did not intend to reshape its immigration policy to permit any large influx from the Orient. It also would honour its war-time promise to prohibit the fur - ther immigration of Japanese.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 May 1947, Page 5
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