🚀 go-pugleaf

"Brian Bagnall" <bbagnall@mts.net> wrote in message 
news:y3%wg.10724$YC3.7510@newsfe23.lga...
> Apparently Steven Harper agreed to apologize to the Chinese for something
> that happened 120 years ago. How Canadian. Someone runs us over with their
> car and we apologize for denting their bumper.
>
> It's amusing to see people today criticize the leaders of the past for 
> their
> decisions, as though we can say their decisions were wrong even though the
> times were far different. Our leaders at the time knew China was a huge
> place, Canada had a small population, and to allow unrestrained 
> immigration
> from China would soon overwhelm Canadians. Imagine how many would have 
> come
> if there was no head tax. We would be China II right now. Instead of the
> Western way flourishing here, the Eastern philosophy would flourish and
> Canada would be a far different place today.
>
> 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,
> "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

So dipshit Harper gives single mothers 4 cents a year for child care, and 
wants to pay how much to the Chinese?