Despite changes to Canada's Immigration Act that appeared to make the process more objective in terms of successful applicants, many scholars believe that discrimination did not totally disappear from immigration policies. For example, ____________________.
A) Visa offices were unevenly distributed in developing countries and were often under-resourced.
B) Immigration officials continued to send back individuals considered to be 'unsuitable' once they arrived in Canadian airports.
C) Immigration officers who were from racialized backgrounds began to engage in reverse racism by denying entry to immigrants from European countries, like Britain and Scotland.
D) The Canadian government secretly recruited potential applicants from Eastern Europe countries, granted them full Canadian citizenship, and then flew them to cities like Vancouver and Calgary as a way of 'keeping the country white'.
E) The point system gave preference to minorities who were willing to give up their identities and culture once they arrived to Canada.
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