That the French-Conservative members of Quebec in the Federal Parliament would always oppose the resumption of an open-door policy in matters of immigration, was promised by many speakers at a large rally of Conservatives held in the province. This promise may have been made as a means of easing the anxiety caused among immigrant-baiters by the recent declaration of the Attorney-General of Ontario, Hon. William Price, that Canada is ready to receive another 10,000,000 immigrants and he hopes to see in the Dominion a population of twenty-five million within the next generation.
Le Devoir and other French-Canadian publications are carrying on an intensive campaign against the possibility of admitting a number of German-Jewish refugees into Canada. Now and again they flash scare headlines about the Dominion being in danger of a refugee flood, and have even hinted that Sir Herbert Samuel’s visit to Canada was made with the purpose of obtaining concessions for German-Jewish refugees from the Canadian Government.
PREMIER LAUDED
Lauding the present Canadian incumbent in office, Premier R. B.
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