Liberals Change Immigration Laws to Focus on Non-European Immigration to Secretly Gain more Votes for Liberal party
It wasn't the Liberals who laid the foundation for that. It was Diefenbaker, a Conservative. Diefenbaker was a outspoken anti-racist. In 1962 he changed the only-European immigration policy to a skill-based immigration policy.
https://cpsa-acsp.ca/papers-2007/Triadafilopoulos.pdf
"This is clear when one considers the way that officials characterized the 1962 reforms. According to the Director of Immigration, W. R. Baskerville, the purpose of the change was to “abolish racial discrimination from [Canada’s] policy,” while making it clear that “we shall still give preference in our selection of immigrants to those countries which have traditionally supplied our immigrants.”
"Similarly, in a memorandum to Cabinet outlining the Department’s proposed measures, the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Ellen Fairclough, noted that the “principal criticisms of Canada’s…immigration legislation” was that “it is based on racial or colour discrimination.” As such, the foremost objective of the revised regulations was “the elimination of any valid grounds for arguing that they contain any restrictions or controls based on racial, ethnic or colour discrimination.”
Also until the mid nineties the majority of all immigrants came in from Europe.
https://www.economist.com/sites/default/files/20161029_WOC090.png
Liberals Change Immigration Laws to Focus on Non-European Immigration to Secretly Gain more Votes for Liberal party
It wasn't the Liberals who laid the foundation for that. It was Diefenbaker, a Conservative. Diefenbaker was a outspoken anti-racist. In 1962 he changed the only-European immigration policy to a skill-based immigration policy.
"Similarly, in a memorandum to Cabinet outlining the Department’s proposed measures, the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Ellen Fairclough, noted that the “principal criticisms of Canada’s…immigration legislation” was that “it is based on racial or colour discrimination.” As such, the foremost objective of the revised regulations was “the elimination of any valid grounds for arguing that they contain any restrictions or controls based on racial, ethnic or colour discrimination.”
https://cpsa-acsp.ca/papers-2007/Triadafilopoulos.pdf
"This is clear when one considers the way that officials characterized the 1962 reforms. According to the Director of Immigration, W. R. Baskerville, the purpose of the change was to “abolish racial discrimination from [Canada’s] policy,” while making it clear that “we shall still give preference in our selection of immigrants to those countries which have traditionally supplied our immigrants.”
Also until the mid nineties the majority of all immigrants came in from Europe.
https://www.economist.com/sites/default/files/20161029_WOC090.png