CANADA A NATION
DISTINCT RACE NOMENCLATURE. LONG DEBATE IN PARLIAMENT. ' RESOLUTION WITHDRAWN. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) OTTAWA, February IC. (Received Feb. 17, at 5.5 p.m.) The resolution by Dr Bissett urging the establishment of a Canadian race was withdrawn from the Commons after a long debate. Dr Bissett argued that Canada was supposed to have attained the status, of a nation, and that it was time to get away with the old order. People who- had been here for three generations should call themselves Canadians. Mr R, B. Bennett, the Conservative Leader, laid down the cardinal proposition that so long as Canada was in- the Empire so long would the term “ British subject” be accompanied by the term “ Canadian citizen.” The Minister for Immigration (Mr Forke) said there was only one Canadian race. The Indian’s term “Canadian citizen ” should be sufficient in the census papers. Captain George Black (Conservative) suggested that if the Act were amended Orientals born in Canada could be called “ Canadian.” That was not desirable.— Australian Press Association.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20645, 18 February 1929, Page 7
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