The Canadian Immigration Department has agreed to notify its overseas offices of an offer of the Canadian Jewish Congress and the Jewish Immigrant Aid Society to provide for the reception, accommodation and employment in Canada of unsponsored Jewish immigrant workers whom the government agrees to admit to the country.
In a letter to Samuel Bronfman, national president of the CJC, replying to a CJC-JIAS memorandum of last November, Walter E. Harris, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, noted, however, that unsponsored immigrants must be qualified in a skill, trade or occupation currently listed for the country where his visa application is made.
The Minister’s letter also accepts the CJC-JIAS offer to find employment for the immigrants after they arrive in this country, but stresses that since the government is responsible for the ultimate integration of the immigrants among the Canadian people, the Jewish organizations must accept the overall direction of the Citizenship and Immigration Department “in diverting immigrants in any or all trades from certain areas, for such periods as may be specified.”
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