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Canadian Parliament Here Pleas for and Against Refugee Immigration

February 10, 1944
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Opposition to the admission of refugees or other immigrants to Canada until all Canadians have secured jobs after the war was expressed in Parliament by G. K. Fraser, have secured jobs after the war was expressed in Parliament by G. K. Fraser, Progressive Conservative deputy, in a criticism of the present government policy.

The attack against refugees and other immigrants come after a liberal deputy, A. W.Rochuck, of Toronto, told Parliament that “the time for turning a deaf ear to the screens of Hitler’s victims has gone by.” He pointed out that records of the in-migration department showed that in the year ending March 31, 1942, only 111 persons of the Jewish faith were admitted to Canada. In the previous year the total was 284.

“Surely in Canada with our great heritage of about 3,500,000 square miles of territory, we have room enough for more than one or two hundred persecuted people fleeing for their lives from the Nazi butchers,” he added. Canada, he said, is a world power and today she can no longer stand, accepting the immunities of childhood in an adult would.

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