§ Mr. SNOWDENasked the Under-Secretary for the Colonies if he was aware that respectable British subjects from this country are being sent back from Canada under the new immigration regulations as undesirable persons; that while in charge of the immigration authorities in Canada they are imprisoned in dirty and crowded places and herded with objectionable foreigners; and can he say if any representations have been made to the Canadian 182 Government in regard to the hardship of these regulations and of such treatment of respectable subjects of the Crown?
§ The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for the COLONIES (Colonel Seely)It is the fact that in some cases emigrants from this country have been refused admission into Canada under the new regulations. If my hon. Friend can furnish me with definite instances of hardships such as those indicated generally in the second part of his question, inquiry shall be made of the Dominion Government. The Secretary of State has now under his consideration representations with regard to hardships which have resulted from the new regulations, and it is his intention to address a communication to the Dominion Government on the subject.
Sir GILBERT PARKERHave the Government taken into consideration the question of co-operation with the Canadian Government by the appointment of emigration representatives in this country to act with the Canadian Government in watching the interests of those who are turned back at the ports?
§ Colonel SEELYThere is already an emigration agent of the Canadian Government in this country as well as an emigrant information office. We are advised that the new regulations have produced hardships, but I do not think the suggestion of the hon. Member will avoid them. If he has any further remedy in view I shall be happy to consider it.