The political impact of the post-war immigrants here is worth more research

Political motives come up in the report by Hanna Suorsa as one reason for choosing to leave Finland, and to migrate to Canada.
This probably refers to the situation that those who could not acclimatize to the Paasikivi-Kekkonen era decided to leave, and perhaps feared Finland would not survive as a western democracy.

This could be one of the reasons for the strong right-wing attitudes often encountered on the Finnish Canadian scene during the post war decades. Animosity against the left-leaning older immigration ran high - and the newcomers established their own organizations and clubs.
A matter to take up in a future research is the impact of the "escapers" on the Finnish-Canadian scene. The abyss between the Finnish Organization and the “Church Finns” became wide as ever in the 50s and 60s, to the extent that the newcomers often did not know at all about the existence of the "other Finns" here. (Some weeks ago an interviewee here in Vapaa Sana explained how she had discovered totally by accident that there were two Finnish language theatres in Toronto.)
The emigrants had left behind a Finnish media situation where comments on matters such as East-West relations were subdued and cautious (even though only a shadow of what was to come in the 70s). No surprise that here in Canada this newspaper became something of a forum for right wing views on Finland and the world, and of religiosity and moral conservatism, right up to fairly recent times.
Another question that awaits an academic answer is the apparent seclusion of all that Finnish political interest within the Finnish scene. (While the old Finnish political left had made its way into English speaking Canada and secured its place in our history as a key factor for human rights and working life ethics). It is apparent that even strong right wing opinions of the Finnish emigrants of the post war era rarely made any splash on the general political or local scene. One of the reasons was perhaps the language barrier. To quote a recent statement to a Vapaa Sana reporter, "meitähän ei kielisten vaalit kiinnosta". (We are not interested in the elections of the English speakers).

JN