Re: Apologizing to the CHinese

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From: fyfpoon
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 23:24

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Brian Bagnall wrote:

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> Let me tell you something bluntly: Those Chinese who paid the head tax were
> lucky to come here. If a stranger asks to stay at your house and you say,

Canada was as much a home to the social trash junked out of England or
Europe as it was to any other ethnic group.  At least those who had not
been convicts at home made better founders than those who had.

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> "Okay, but you have to pay me $50 per day." you are *not* a bad person. You
> don't have to apologize for asking for compensation. It is your home and you
> are entitled to make whatever offer you want. Canada owes no apology to
> anyone they have allowed into the country. Apparently 81,000 came here and
> paid the tax. Enough said.
> 
> - B

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