CANADA'S LOCKED DOOR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20713, 5 November 1930, Page 14

CANADA'S LOCKED DOOR.

Sir,—The outrageous treatment, mfcted out to New Zealanders and Australians who were not paupers by tho Canadian Government is enough to make a Britisher's blood boil. Canadians seem to bo trying to out-yank the Yankee with his rigorous quota system to protect his polyglot population. Under the circumstances, I think we might well increase tho duty on Canadian goods. They have treated our people as if they had been foreign lepers. They have placed free British subjects under lock and key, men who had committed no offence. Why should we trade on Empire preference terms with these hostile cousins? Let us give the trade to old England, who can do with it just now. Kuunleaf. Kir, —Re the exclusion of emigrant! from Canada and their return on the Niagara, there is only one comment possible :—"Serves them right." The new regulations brought in by the Government of Canada were cabled here and published in both papers. Also the reasons given by the new Prime Minister of tho Dominion for that belated and noeessarv step. Since then rioL a week has passed without references on your principal pago to conditions in Canada, i.e., widespread unemployment, crop disasters due to bad weather; too high infant mortality; the approaching winter, etc. As for their "prosperity week," in Vancouver it is no new thing for people to ciieer themselves up with such stunts. In fact, very similar methods have been recorded of other Dominions further south than Canada, where people, allegedly in a tight corner, camouflage their woes and try to carry it off. Stop, read and listen should be the policy of all intending emigrants to any country these days. Veritas.