Government Stops Immigration, 1931
*Thinking behind if there were no jobs for canadians why would they want to give jobs to people who weren't from canada.
*Were afraid that the canadians who did have jobs would lose them to immigrants
*Minorities and women suffered particularly
*Aboriginal familes on relief only got 5 dollars a month
*They were told to go live off the land again, which was hard because they were wards of the state
* Immigrants particularly Chinese were viewed with hostilities when they competed for the scarce jobs available
*Anti-Semitism- was rampant towards Jews in Canada
* Jews fleeing Nazi Germany were not allowed in to Canada
*10,000 jews were deported during the depression
*All immigration was halted until 1931 after the war.
*Were afraid that the canadians who did have jobs would lose them to immigrants
*Minorities and women suffered particularly
*Aboriginal familes on relief only got 5 dollars a month
*They were told to go live off the land again, which was hard because they were wards of the state
* Immigrants particularly Chinese were viewed with hostilities when they competed for the scarce jobs available
*Anti-Semitism- was rampant towards Jews in Canada
* Jews fleeing Nazi Germany were not allowed in to Canada
*10,000 jews were deported during the depression
*All immigration was halted until 1931 after the war.
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Summary
The new immigration policy was put into place because the government was quite concerned that with the economy the way it was 'True' Canadians would lose out on ant opportunity for employment they could come across. They thought that this was the only sensible thing to do.