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STATEMENT BY THE HO'OUPABLE ROBERT ANDRAS
MINISTER OF HANPOVER AND LMHLGRATION

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September 17, 1973

616-56 SPARKS, OTTAAG.ONTARO KP SAS (513) 237~-S22", TELEX 053-4503

October 5, 1973.

. Memo to: CFM Menbers
Fron: Jack Willis

The Minister of Manpower and Immigration has tequeated the assist

of the Canadien Federation of Mayors end Municipalities nenbers with regard

to the full scale review ef Canada's inmigration policy.

Attached are the releases mace Septerber 17th by the Minister, the
Honourable Robert Andras, which outlines the review and the concems of the

Department with regard to Canada's iticigration policy.

_Your board has approved the Federation's support in this review
end are requesting your assistance. Vill you present the ratter to your

Council for their consideration and advise this office of their deliberations

with any dations, ts etc. which they may have, these will be

included in the brief which will be Presented to the Minister outlining rhe

municipal position on this natter.

4s there is sowe degree of urgency wild you give this matter your
earliest consideration and have any comments submitted to this office not
later than December lst 1973, :

Your support and cooperation 4a appreciated.

| Lae
(£1 Ll, Willis

Adcing Secretary General

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Problems have a besring on Caneda's dumigration policy as it relates to cur desire
fo assist the third world. We want also to take into account our well-established
Cradition of receiving polieical refugese.

These questions, and many core, aust be asked. It fe easy to ask queations,
bue mich le #sv to find the right answars. No government can responsibly
Propose quick aulutions to problems as connlex and duportanet as the: Decisions
abous our derographic fucure are dacisions about the kind of Caneds va want. They
ean only be rade after a thorough process of consultation with all Canadtans,

Ae I told Parliament recently, the task i enormous and urgent. The Covarne
Bant intends to proceed without delay, The firet atep must be to Adantify all the
options, and for thin purpose I have appotnted « seal} group of people to deal with
shie cask. We viil need a great deal of halp. 1 am writing coday to provinctal
povarncents and to ovar 100 organizations, inviting thea co tell us about cheir
Particuler concerns and give us their advica. I vould slso encourage all concemed
Canadtans 2a individuals, or in Groups, to vrice me and give me cheir views,

My target for tha completion of this atave of the Pprocesa, which will a’so
anvolve s series of special atudies, ia next spring. The reeults will be published
fa the form of a docurene = ao "Green Paper” = which, I am confident, will provoke
further national discussion, I want to ecphastze that wa will be seeking the
“Widest possible spectrum of public opiaion on the green paper. In addition to
masking the vievs of the provincas and briefa fran intereated groups, f an proposing
that @ national conference on iznigration and population be convened, éponsored by
ay Departeant, .

Tha "Green Paper will, I hope, provide m good fecus for debste, It will .
do three things. Firer, i¢ will identify tha probleas, and analyse policy options
in tecms which will relate immigration co the kind of Canade that we eight vance,
Sacond, it will raview the techniques and procedures by vhich femigranta are
Tecrufted. And thirdly, £¢ will review che whole legal framework within vhich new
polictes should oper,

The and casult se which we are aining is a coeprehensive policy, to ba
expressed in sow texigration legislation for submission to Parliament. Our goal
fe an up-to-date instrusent to shape Canada's future tomigration to the context I
have tried to outline, GQazaly that fenigration tn the fucure will cructally affect
and de Canada's de, soctal, cultural and demographic growth,

ALL this, of course, does not mean that the on-going business ef tuntgration
Btops, As we have jusc done, ve vil 4 to make odj as and vhan they
become necessary, Such changes, hovevar, must not prejudice in any way the outcome
of the policy reviav process which we have now lsunched,

Te te now universally accepted that Caneda needs a nev Inaigration policy,
Although in cha lase few yeacs « treat deat has been done to respond to rantié end
profound developments at hors and ab ad, ci ig an urgent need for « troader
feapevork within which Canede's fucure in teres of the eize of ite population and
ite dietribucton can evolve in a sore orderly fashion,

The present Inxtgration Act dacee back to 1952, te ven formiuleted in the
epiric of the years efter World War N1, and tes roote are really in leatalation
ahaped by the condittone and problems extating in this country 6¢ the tum of the
century,

In the weantine dranatic changes have taken Placa in Canada end in the

world, Not least, stettudes and values have undergone striking transforestica. One
he increasing reluctance cf Canedtane to have large fazilies.

How decreased co the point where to rely on birehs alene
olf, ££ not an eventual decline tn Canada's population,
a of the decceating birth rate and che prospect that ve will continue to
lose prople chrough exigration to other countries, tr taration seers lihely to
determina, more than heretofora, Canade’a pepuletion aize.

AC the aane tine, ve are vitnessing the Consequences - soce good, some not ~
of ponulatton grourh, A few of our big cities are getting bierer at the exnense
ef rural areas and even vhole regions. Are willing ta pav the penalties of thie
febalancel If we want new Jestprants, do want thea to continue to concentrata
overvhalaiagly tn our big ctetes, vhere excessive and Tat Populatton increase ie
alvesdy a sertous probles, or do va want pore of thew to settle in these areas vhich
ed them moat? Ate there effective and acceptable means to encourate @ better
pptence in che setclerent of iucigrante, given the general Greference for urben

ving

Meenvnile our sources of famigracion are changing, The tradittensl flou
from the United Kingdoa and Europe te slowing down, proportiona' ¥, vhile an
focreastng nueder of people fron eloping world are anxious te sectie here.
What kind of imeigrante doea our lsbour earkec, pra to and fucura, require; and what -
iad of tertgrants we sacking In terca of our social and cultural future?

Tt vill be as Suportant as ever to give careful considerstion to the tevact
immigration atreans cay have an the balance between Engliah and French speaking
Cenadtens and che present avlef-culcural fabric of Canada,

Another trend {8 the Crenendous increase in wobiitty, Revolutionized trane-
portation has lowered econcate barriers co people's movement, generating a radical
Stovth in tarercational tourism end prefoundly affecting algracion pattems.

When ve lock shead thare are amy questions demanding enevera.

Cen ve afford not to grow, or tu grov at a elover pace than, for instance,
oar big neighbour co the South? I¢ seens apparent thac ve shoutd establish objectivas
wad plan Cenada’o future tn @ vay which will eateguard our aconemic vell-baing,
end aseure our ecciel and cultural developamnt within a scvereign coemnity.

There are other questions, How cm we reconcile longer term featgration and
population objectives with the tnmediace reslitice of the market Place? An approach
sous countries use extensively ie to invite “guest workers” from abroad to fill
specific shart-cerme lshour requirezente. Should Canada be doing mora of this?

Another range of questions relaces to adjustment, How far should we go to
extending epecial help ¢o the fentgrant os regards hia or her emloyrent and
health, and his or her deetre to be enited with family and relatives in Canadat
What further effocts should we make co assiet the fonigrant to becons pare of our
soctety and to feel at hone quickly with our way of iffe?

. Them te the feportet matter of our 4 ities. Deve-
Joping nections face artrevaly sertoue probleas, Most auffer frow aver-populacion
and the wcarcicy of qualified professionals and trained labour. Both these

OFFICE OF THE MINISTER OF MANPOWER AND IMMIGRATION
Septasber 17, 1973

Robart Andras, Minister of Manpower and Ieerigration, teday announced action
to create a nev long-term basis for Canada's dnmigration and population policy.

"A new fomigration policy must ba based on a general agreerent about the kind
of Canada ve wane tomorrow," the Minister said, "We om define wall-fomded object=
aves about how fast our population should grow, how 1 shuuld be apread becveen
cities and rural areas and among the various tegions, and whac kind of social and
cultural environment Couadians vant,"

Mr. Andras said that the present Irnigration Act, vritten in 1952, vas no
longer om adequate instrurent for shaping the future population of Canada.

“Htgration and population trends, nationally aud vorldvide, ave changing
tapidly," he said. "This wekes urgent a new temigration polfey which will meet
Caneda's needs for the rest of the seatury™,

The tinfater rnnounced the sppointrent of a special task force to study
policy options and organize the whole review proceas, A sentor official on Loan
from the Departrent of Excemal Affateraz, Hr, RM, Tait, has been named chairman,
with Mr. Femand Renault, a well-known Journalist, as associate chairman. The
Cask force will ba supporead by @ group of experts and consultants dram fros
outside the Covernzent.

“EY am uriting today to the provincial governments and to over one hundred
organizations inviting thea to help us with the job and I have asked the task force
to proceed with apectal studias ta focus on @ range of problecs, Next spring, I .
datend to publish a "Green Papar”™ which will outline the any options we have in
che ffeld of temtgration, and the consequences of each," the Minister said.

The sumer of 1974 will be davoted co an intensive Public discussion of the
“Crean Paper", in the fort of submtastons and briefs, end an irmigration and popu-
lation conference under cha auspices of the Department of Manpower and lerigration.
Tha alm fa a forvard-looking femigration policy, backed by new legislation to be
Presented to Parlianent as early as possible,

“The task {a enormous and ditficule: tt will nead the help of all Canadiens,
= am Looking forward to an open and fruitfcl discussion”, Mr, Ande