CANADA’S OPENING FOR REFUGEES TO MIGRATE FROM EUROPE

Grey River Argus, 3 May 1947, Page 5

CANADA’S OPENING FOR REFUGEES TO MIGRATE FROM EUROPE

(Rec. 8.45). OTTAWA, May 1. The Prime Minister, Mr McKenzie King, in the House of Commons, said that Canada’s present immigration policy necessarily fell into two parts. One comprised measures designed for immediate application, and the other was a long term plan. Mr McKenzie King agreed that Canada needed a larger* population if she were to thrive and the retain hex* hold on a half continent. But he indicated that transport difficulties would prevent application of a general immigration policy for some time. The emphasis meanwhile should be laid on refugees. Mr* McKenzie King disclosed that Canadian immigration officers were being sent to Europe to examine the situation among the refugee groups, and to arrange for the early admittance to Canada of several thousand displaced persons. The Canadian Government did not intend to reshape its immigration policy so as to permit of any large influx from the Orient. The Government also would honour a war-time promise to prohibit the further immigration of Japanese.