An appeal for the doubling of Canada’s population through immigration, “in order to give the people of Canada a higher standard of living and provide them with goods and services at lower cost,” was made here today by J.S. McGowan, director of colonization and agriculture of the Canadian National Railways. He emphasized that he was not, however, in favor of a policy of free and unrestricted immigration.
“Canada must return to a more positive policy on immigration as compared with the negative one that has been dominant for some time,” Mr. McGowan declared. “We must realize that immigrants are assets and not liabilities.”
Another propagandist for a larger influx of immigrants is Jean Charles Harvey, editor of the local French language weekly Le Jour, who in a speech today declared “that Canada now is one of the few countries where another 60 million people might live comfortably.”
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