Immigration officials told a Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent today that the gates of Canada were open to any Jew prepared to settle on the land.
Commenting on reports in the Jewish press regarding admission of Jews into the dominion, officials said the fault was with Jewish relief organizations for making insufficient effort to negotiate with the Canadian Government on Jewish colonization.
Permanent settlement of Jews is possible, these officials stated, on Canada’s vast fertile and virgin open spaces in the Canadian West or in the Northern regions of Ontario or Quebec.
Although the Canadian Government has welcomed Jewish immigrants prepared to settle on the land since 1867, only one and one-half per cent of Canada’s Jewish population was on the land or connected in some way with Canadian agriculture at the beginning of 1938, it was stated.
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