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CONFIDENTIAL

FM OTTAWA

TO PRIORITY FCO

TELNO 857

CONFIDENTIAL

RECEIVER

JES

CISTRY

09 JAN 1990

SICER

REGISTRY

PA

Action Taken

150270

A

OF 230035Z DECEMBER 89

Ess

INFO ROUTINE WASHINGTON, BTC HONG KONG, HONG KONG

YOUR TELNO 2364 TO WASHINGTON: HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT

1. WE TOOK ACTION ON 22 DECEMBER WITH JEAN MCCLOSKEY, THE ASSISTANT DEPUTY MINISTER (DUS EQUIVALENT) RESPONSIBLE FOR ASIA.

2. MCCLOSKEY TOOK NOTE AND SAID THAT POSSIBLE CHANGES TO CANADIAN POLICY TOWARDS HONG KONG WERE STILL UNDER REVIEW. SHE DID NOT, HOWEVER, HOLD OUT ANY EARLY HOPE OF COMPARABLE MEASURES TO OUR OWN. SHE STRESSED THAT CANADA ALREADY TOOK 23,000 LANDED IMMIGRANTS A YEAR FROM HONG KONG. CANADIAN PUBLIC POLICY WAS GLOBAL IN SCOPE, THERE WAS NO PUBLIC PRESSURE TO DO MORE FOR HONG KONG AND PUBLIC OPINION DID NOT LIKE ANY IMMIGRATION POLICY WHICH COULD BE REGARDED AS MAKING CANADA A COUNTRY OF CONVENIENCE.

FALL

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DISTRIBUTION

107

MAIN

104

.HONG KONG AGREEMENT

SEAD

.(RESTRICTED)

PS

LIMITED

HKD

HD/FED

RESEARCH (FE)

ECD (I)

WED

NAD

SPD

FED

ADDITIONAL

3

PUSD

NEWS D

PS/MR MAUDE

PS/LORD BRABAZON

MR GILLMORE

MR MCLAREN

MR BLATHERWICK

MR MOSS

MR EDWARDS, LEG ADV.

MR WHOMERSLEY, LEG, ADV.

ME AFOST.

HKD

1

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