The number, kind and nationality of immigrants desired for Canada will be left to the individual provinces, declared Hon. Charles Stewart, acting Dominion Minister of Immigration, in defining the new immigration policy which is now being negotiated with the provincial governments in the House of Commons. The provincial governments will also have full charge of colonization, while the federal government will act as a clearing house and will find the immigrants that the provinces want each year and deliver them to the provincial capitals.
Advising against any stiffening of restrictions against people from non-preferred countries, to which the Jews mostly belong, Mr. Stewart stated that he felt that there was plenty of room in Canada for the honest individual who was willing to place himself at his own expense and to abide by the laws of the Dominion. He would place no restrictions on anyone, and added that in the past, if there was unemployment, the federal government was blamed by the provinces, who charged that too many immigrants had been brought in. Hence he felt that colonization should be a provincial matter.
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