Canadian Minister of Labor Humphrey Mitchell, speaking today in the House of Commons, administered a sharp rebuke to deputy Jean Francois Pouliot who criticized the “policy of making Canada the dumping ground of all the nations of the world.”
Mr. Mitchell told Pouliot, who has demonstrated his bias against immigrants on many occasions, that “I do not think it is well that utterances should go forth from this House which would have for their purpose the splitting of this nation, not into two racial groups only, but into a dozen racial groups. In this very difficult period I do not think any member of this House should rise in his place and cast reflections on men and women who have made a distinct contribution in building up this Dominion of Canada.”
Pouliot had also protested against allowing immigrants and sons of immigrants to serve in the Canadian forces “where they would be entitled to the same privileges as red-blooded Canadians who enlist in the army.”
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