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Even so, the Chinese Immigration Act, 1923, prevented the Poys ' immediate entry into the country until the Department of External Affairs intervened and cited an unfilled quota in the prisoner of war exchange programme with the Japanese Imperial Forces that would permit the Poy family free passage into Canada.
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