It would develop suspicions and resentments that would ilcrease in force as the years go by. We would suffer perhaps more than the Canadians by such a policy. The reasons which have been urged against European Immigration can not be urged against Canada. It has been urged that the great majority of the Europeans who have come to our shores during the past 20 years have not been homogeneous and are not easily assimilable. Many harsh statements during the discussion of this bill have been made against those who have come from southern and eastern Europe which I regard as wholly unwarranted and most inaccurate. But I shall not discuss that question. I merely advert to the reasons given for restricting immigration from Europe to call attention to the fact that those reasons. whether sound or unsound. do not apply to Canada. The line separating Canada from the United States is a mere geographical one. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have found homes in Canada and are contributing to the development of British America. and large numbers of Canadians have found homes in the United States and many others have large business interests within our borders.
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