Stating that Canada was destined to be “a laboratory for minorities” Archdeacon Gower-Rees, head of the Anglican Church in Montreal, today expressed himself in favor of modified immigration laws so that Canada’s doors should be opened to the peoples of crowded European countries.
“The Canada of post-war years was destined to be a laboratory for minorities where immigrants from other nations and races would find equality of opportunity,” the Archdeacon declared.
The News Herald of Vancouver, also adds its voice to the protagonists of free immigration stating that one of Canada’s chief contributions to post-war settlement must inevitably be the provision of “living space” for the people of overcrowded countries.
The paper predicted that in the post-war world no nation with vast stretches of unsettled and unused territory could claim these lands as its own. “We are not going to be able to pick and choose future immigrants in the manner we have done in the past,” it added.
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