HIST 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Iron Curtain, Black Canadians, Absorptive Capacity
14 Sep 2016
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Business leaders were generally in favour of increased immigration (more labourers) Canadians as a whole though were a bit more ambivalent: Some fears that immigrants from other places in europe would reduce. French canadians were also worried about preserving culture. King tried to please both supporters of immigration and those against it by reasoning: Canada only had a certain absorptive capacity (canadian government would only bring a number of immigrants that canada could absorb at one time) Did not cease discriminating against immigrants of certain ethnic backgrounds (chinese) - race remained an important criteria for immigration officials. This began opening up canada for the tons of refugees in europe left over from the war. About 3% of canada"s postwar immigrants came from france. Hungarian refugees at this point had fallen behind the iron curtain. Still, 37,000 hungarians were able to escape and come to canada during the failed uprising against being controlled.
