HINDUS IN CANADA.
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ciation—Copyright. Received 10.25 p.m. OTTAWA, June 2
The House of Commons discussed the arrival cf a shipload of Hindus. Mr Frank Oliver declared that the Hindus had challenged Canada and they ought to meet the challenge. He asked Government to enforce the section of the Immigration Act preventing Courts dealing with immigration matters otherwise provided for. Mr Borden (the Premier) replied that when the time came the section would be enforced. A Board of Inquiry had been appointed to investigate' the case of each Hindu attempting to enter. Sir Wilfrid Lauiier pointed out that the question was not so much keeping Canada white as preventing overwhelming economic competition and friction between the different races. It was an Empire matter more easily settled by diplomacy than by law. Mr Borden replied that Sir Wilfrid Laurier's own attempts to settle the question by diplomacy were not very jjuccessful.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 12807, 3 June 1914, Page 5
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