Canada: a safe haven for refugees

  • Asian immigration

    the british government was only going to allow 3500 refugees per year
  • Canada's immigration rules were changed

    Canada's immigration rules were changed to remove the racial discrimination
  • Ugandan Refugee passports

    the central African country of Ugandan had annouced that all asians that owned british passports would be expelled in 90 days. oiver 50000 of these Asians would be affected by this.
  • immigration act

    Canada had changed their immigration act, stating that they were not allowed to send refugees back home
  • Boat People

    150 of the 600 Chinese-Vietnamese refugees landed in Canada
  • amount of immigrants in Canada

    in 2002 about 20% of Canada's population were immigrants