THE CANADIAN DEPORTATION PROBLEM.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11646, 25 August 1905, Page 6

THE CANADIAN DEPORTATION PROBLEM.

The Canadian alieu labour law, which was enacted to offset the American labour law, has been declared invalid by Judge Auglin, of Toronto. Some railway employees were arrested at St. Thomas, and ' their case was made a test one. {( The Judge, in giving his decisions, said: "The deportation ordered by the Government is impossible of enforcement— it is a physical impossibility." That to deport a man from Canada to the United States the constable must escort" him to the boundary line and set 'him on the other side. This, the Judge holds, he has not the power to" do, because to make ' the expulsion complete the constable must perform part of his duty on ' American soil, where he has Ho jurisdiction, and to exercise it would be an outrage. The constable must keep on kis own side of the line. * The learned judge settles the incident of * the ' Alien Labour Act effectively, and in a manner eminently; satisfactory- to this country. But^it is difficult to understand why a man cannot be put out of our country into another without violating .a^boundary line. There seems to us no need of the constable escorting his prisoner across, the line. He could march him to within a' few inches of the line, face him to the boundary, and give him a shove' sufficient to send him across, or. in some cases, a foot placed in the small of the prisoner's back and propelled with all the power of muscle that the' constable could summon would effect a deportation with clear-cut success. In thus disposing of the case before him the judge is diplomatic. It is a nice way of disposing of a law that should never have been enacted. The American alien law was not aimed at Canada, .but at Europe, China, and Japan. — coolie contract labour.