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"Aeroplan" <aplan967@shaw.ca> wrote in message 
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> "Brian Bagnall" <bbagnall@mts.net> wrote in message 
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>> 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
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> So dipshit Harper gives single mothers 4 cents a year for child care, and 
> wants to pay how much to the Chinese?

so in what program is he giving 4 cents a year? I must have missed that.