When Boy Trudeau refers to the ''none is too many'' immigration policies towards Jewish people, he refers to the title of the book: ''None is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe 1933-1948,'' a book co-authored by the Canadian historians Irving Abella and Harold Troper. What the young and confused Trudeau leaves out of his eloquent speech is that the policies of the Liberal government of Mackenzie King are a part of what led to the book being written. Here is the web site that spells it all out.
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Look for the paragraph that says: ''On May 15, 1939, the St. Louis, a steamship carrying 907 German Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany, set sail from Hamburg, Germany for Havana, Cuba. However, on May 30, when it reached the Havana port, the Cuban government refused to recognize the passengers' entrance visas and none was allowed to disembark. No other Latin American country would admit the refugees, and the St. Louis had to leave port. Canada and the United States were the Jews' last hope, but Mackenzie King ignored the protests of Canadian Jewish organizations and said the crisis was not a 'Canadian problem.'
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