Excerpt from Suggestions for Land Settlement: More Consideration for the Seller; Acceptance or Rejection of Immigrants at the Port of Embarkation; Individual Opportunity to Secure Practical Farming Experience Before Taking Up Holdings

We should do everything we legitimately can to' firmly establish the resources of Canada in the minds of those whose financial support is so essen tial and we 'should be very careful not to frame our immigration policies on the principle that a temporary depression and temporary unemployment is a justification for barriers against the introduction of a good type of immigrant into this country.

The people of Canada do not sufficiently realize that the most urgent and essential need to-day is increase in population, not only to provide traffic for the railways, but also to help pay our enormous national indebtedness. So far as the railways are concerned, the National Railways are even more, concerned in this demand for population than the Canadian Pacific, owing to the extent of sparsely populated country in which so much of their mile age is located. It was an aggressive immigration propaganda that built up the Canadian Pacific, and without immigration the prospects of the Cana dian National are, in my opinion, hopeless. Any legislation which would stem the tide of desirable immigration must inevitably pile up further deficits, for immigration is Canada's great salvation. Mr. Crerar, who was speaking particularly in the interests of the National Railways, struck the right note when he declared before the Canadian Club in Montreal, that a wise and vigorous immigration policy would help solve the problem. I was interested to learn Mr. Crerar's attitude to the foreign-born immigrant and to hear of his speech at Ste. Anne de Bellevue, in which he commended the progress of the foreign born in Western Canada, pointing out that over fifty per cent of the students at Manitoba University were of foreign par entage. I have recently read a most interesting article in the Grain Growers' Guide in reference to the Ukrainians in Western Canada, in which it is stated that these people of sturdy farming stock from Central Europe have four large educational institutes at Saskatoon, Winnipeg, and Edmon ton, respectively, and have become a real asset to Canada. The people from the Scandinavian countries have made admirable settlers. During the year 1920, nearly 1600 of these came as immigrants to Canada, of whom only 10 were deported. All of them are thrifty, hardworking people.

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