Speech #700135708

The situation there is this: During the last few years. with the opening up of the direct roads to Montreal and Ottawa. there is a tremendous amount of travel. There came in through Rouses Point last year 325.000 and through Trout River nearly as many. We have practically no provision for looking after or inspecting this immigration. The man at Trout River called me up one day last summer and said he had been working for 18 hours a day until he was played out and that there were 500 cars there that day. and asked me what he should do about them. I told him that I had no authority over him. but that I would let them go through. and that is what they are doing. .Our country is being flooded with Chinese who are coming in across the border because there is no one there to look after the work. and our jails are being filled with them. There is one thing we really ought to do. and that is provide enough ordinary inspectors there to look after the immigration that is coming across the northern border at the present time. or admit that we are paying no attention to enforcing the law in that section. The increase carried in this bill really amounts to nothing. The department says with the increase allowed in the present bill this year they do not see how they can get any additional men.