--Irving Abella, foreword to Whence They Came: Deportation from Canada, 1900-1935, by Barbara Roberts (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1988), vii.
Sunday, August 19, 2018
Canada, a Land of Immigrants, Hates Immigration
Canada is a peculiar nation. Peopled by immigrants, it is a country, paradoxically, which hates immigration. Every single public opinion survey over the past fifty years indicates that most Canadians--including by the way, most immigrants themselves--do not want any substantial increase in the number of people admitted to this country. This attitude may surprise Canadians, but historically it should not.
--Irving Abella, foreword to Whence They Came: Deportation from Canada, 1900-1935, by Barbara Roberts (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1988), vii.
--Irving Abella, foreword to Whence They Came: Deportation from Canada, 1900-1935, by Barbara Roberts (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1988), vii.
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