{"id":4639,"date":"2025-11-16T03:10:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T03:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=4639"},"modified":"2025-11-16T03:10:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T03:10:25","slug":"william-lyon-mackenzie-king-canadas-longest-service-prime-minister-was-right-about-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=4639","title":{"rendered":"William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada&#8217;s Longest Service Prime Minister  Was Right About Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada&#8217;s Longest Service Prime Minister Was Right About Immigration<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Prime-Minister-William-Mackenzie-King-and-immigration.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"874\" height=\"740\" src=\"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Prime-Minister-William-Mackenzie-King-and-immigration.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Prime-Minister-William-Mackenzie-King-and-immigration.png 874w, https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Prime-Minister-William-Mackenzie-King-and-immigration-300x254.png 300w, https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Prime-Minister-William-Mackenzie-King-and-immigration-768x650.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 874px) 100vw, 874px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em><strong><em><strong><em>\u201cCanada is perfectly within her rights in selecting the persons whom we regard as desirable future citizens [\u2026] There will, I am sure, be general agreement with the view that the people of Canada do not wish, as a result of mass immigration, to make a fundamental alteration in the character of our population. Large-scale immigration from the Orient would change the fundamental composition of the Canadian population.<\/em>\u201c<\/strong><br><br>\u2014 Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada&#8217;s Longest Service Prime Minister Was Right About Immigration \u201cCanada is perfectly within her rights in selecting the persons whom we regard as desirable future citizens [\u2026] There will, I am sure, be general agreement with the view that the people of Canada do not wish, as a result of mass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[458,497],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4641,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4639\/revisions\/4641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}