Ontario passed the Fair Accommodation Practices Act prohibiting racial discrimination in public-access areas such as restaurants in 1954. In this excerpt from a 1954 film, we see panels of Black and White residents of Dresden expressing conflicting opinions on discrimination. Hugh Burnette, National Unity Association spokesman, states that actions can be regulated by law, harmonious feelings can come later.

This film goes to Dresden, Ontario, to sample local attitudes towards the racial discrimination against black people that brought this town into the news. After a round-up of the opinions of individual citizens, white and black, commentator Gordon Burwash joins two discussion panels, presenting opposite points of view. The rights and wrongs of the quarrel are left for the audience to decide.