Fewer Italians, Please

Canada's longtime aim in regulating immigration is to increase the population without diluting the British strain below its present 48%. This policy has no warmer proponent than Immigration Minister Ellen Fairclough, a member of the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire and a descendant of a family of United Empire Loyalists who fled the American Revolution to remain under British rule in Canada. So to Minister Fairclough, the 1958 immigration statistics were frankly disturbing. For the first time since World War II, Britons failed to contribute the largest share of immigrants; they were outnumbered by Italians, 28,564 to 26,622.

"It seems that immigrants from Italy," said Minister Fairclough, "immediately they come to this land, want to bring out their brothers and sisters and other relatives." To put a brake on this Italian custom and help restore the old immigration pattern, the Cabinet last week adopted an order-in-council suspending the free immigration of Canadian residents' non-dependent relatives from Italy--not to mention the rest of Continental Europe (except France), Lebanon, Israel and Latin America.

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