Credit: Centre for Newfoundland Studies
William Ping

This piece will also be appropriate for discussions of Government and Law, job creation and the many issues associated with race relations. Students should be encouraged to honestly examine their own feelings towards minorities.

Immigration is a particularly sensitive issue in the 1990s. For a Newfoundland context, instructors may want to focus on the mass defections at Gander International Airport in the late 1980s and early 1990s, as well as the landing of illegal aliens in Newfoundland by boat.