The Least Possible Fuss and Publicity - 9780228005612

The Least Possible Fuss and PublicityThe Politics of Immigration in Postwar Canada, 1945-1967\nAuthor(s): Paul A. Evans\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, Canada\nImprint: McGill-Queen's University Press\nISBN-13: 9780228005612, 978-0228005612\nSynopsis\nOver the two decades following the Second World War, the policy that would create \""a nation of immigrants,\"" as Canadian multiculturalism is now widely understood, was debated, drafted, and implemented. The established narrative of postwar immigration policy as a tepid mixture of altruism and national self-interest does not fully explain the complex process of policy transformation during that period. In The Least Possible Fuss and Publicity Paul Evans recounts changes to Canada's postwar immigration policy and the events, ideas, and individuals that propelled that change.\n\nThrough extensive primary research in the archives of federal departments and the parliamentary record, together with contemporary .