While Black immigration to Canada is small, anti-Black racism is high and alarmist. Canadian authorities delay in replying to enquiries from Black immigrants, or they communicate via a form letter that they don't think Black people will do well in Canada.

Canada pays lecturers to go to the U.S. and speak about the inhospitable nature of Canada. Railway reps are told to charge Black people full price rather than the settler rate. These subtler policies eventually result in the Order-in-Council banning “any immigrants belonging to the Negro race, which is deemed unsuitable to the climate and requirements of Canada."