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TELEGRAM NUMBER 498 OF 15 OCTOBER
REPEATED FOR INFO: ROUTINE HONG KONG, UKMIS GENEVA.
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1. I TOOK ACTION YESTERDAY WITH MR SHEEHAN, ASSISTANT UNDER- SECRETARY FOR IMMIGRATION AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: AND ALSO REMINDED HIM OF REPRESENTATIONS IN HONG KONG ON 17 SEPTEMBER
2. HE TOOK CAREFUL NOTE, AND ASSURED US THAT OUR REPRESENTATIONS WERE IN PLENTY OF TIME. PROPOSED OVERALL LEVELS OF IMMIGRATION FOR GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED REFUGEES FOR 1933 FROM THE VARIOUS REGIONS OF THE WORLD WOULD BE TABLED IN PARLIAMENT BY THE MINISTER FOR EMPLOYMENT AND IMMIGRATION AT THE BEGINNING OF NOVEMBER. (HE WOULD INFORM THE MINISTER OF OUR DEMARCHE). THE DEA WOULD SUBSEQUENTLY DECIDE THE ACTUAL ALLOCATION OF RESETTLEMENT PLACES TO INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES WITHIN THOSE LEVELS: IE. THE MINISTER WOULD DECIDE HOW MANY SOUTH-EAST ASIAN REFUGEES CANADA WOULD TAKE, AND THE DEA WOULD DECIDE HOW MANY OF THEM WOULD COME FROM EG. THAILAND AND HOW MANY FROM HONG KONG.
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WE COULD EXPECT A DECISION ON HONG KONG'S ALLOCATION SOME TIME IN NOVEMBER.
4. IN ADDITION TO GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED REFUGEES, THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT WILL ALLOW OTHER REFUGEES ENTRY, PROVIDED THEY ARE ADEQUATELY SPONSORED PRIVATELY (EG. BY RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS).
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THIS TELEGRAM WAS NOT ADVANCED
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