IMMIGRATION SCANDALS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 81, 3 February 1928, Page 5

IMMIGRATION SCANDALS

I I POLITICIANS INVOLVED. CANADIAN SENSATION. Press Association—Copyright, A ustralian ami N.Z ("able Assn. (Received 9.15 a.m.) OTTAWA, February. 2. Sensational disclosures are like-

ly to result from the Parliamentary investigations promised by the Premier into certain phases of the immigration problem. it is common knowledge that members of Parliament have been using the permit, system to get certain persons into Canada, but. (lie system never contemplated their making considerable money by this moans. There are persistent stories that some few members, and some outside persons received substantial revenue by procuring permits to admit foreigners at so much per head. Even "more serious are the credible stories lof "permit bootleggers," or persons I who manufacture bogus permits and [distribute them to the financial advantage of themselves and others. Mr Forke, (lie Minister of Immigration, knows of the existence of such an industry, and the Mounted Police are on the track of it.