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November 6 Ottawa The Special Joint […]

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1975-11-06

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November 6 Ottawa The Special Joint Committee on Immigration Policy presented its final report to Parliament, which advised the federal government to delete from the Immigration Act the provision (under section 5e) that prohibited foreign gays from entering Canada either as visitors or as immigrants. This decision was influenced by the presentations of fifteen gay organizations and numerous individuals made before the Committee in public hearings held across Canada during May-June 1975. The Immigration Act, 1976, which removed the prohibition against homosexuals, was passed into law on July 25,1977.

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Ken Popert, "Parliamentary Committee Recommends End to Gay Exclusion," Body Politic, no. 22 (1976), pp. 3-4.Gary Kinsman, The Regulation of Desire: Sexuality in Canada (Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1987), pp. 123-24;William Johnson, "Immigration Scheme Proposes Quotas, Altered Categories," Globe and Mail, metro ed., 21 October 1975, pp. 1, 2;Philip Girard, "From Subversion to Liberation: Homosexuals and the Immigration Act 1952-1977," Canadian Journal of Law and Society 2 (1987): 1-27;
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