POLS 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: C86, Skilled Worker, French Americans
21 Jan 2017
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Before 1967, canada had most racist immigration policies. 1869 - gave ship captains discretion to bring who they wanted to canada, no disabled, Chinese immigration acts - head tax - tried to deter amount of chinese coming to canada for railway, Head tax - every chinese had to pay , didnt work, increased to , then. just men would come because it was so expensive. Continuous journey act - if indian citizen come to canada from india, had to make continuous journey. Didnt last very long because people built own boat to cross sea and died. 1952 for every asian, must land in canada with at least cad, anyone else only needed . Undesirable class (not allowed in) - prostitutes, uneducated, pimps, criminal record, mental handicap, homosexuals. 1923 - chinese immigration act - exclusion act. Chinese and japanese completely disallowed from coming to canada.
