XPost: hfx.general, mtl.general, calgary.general 
 XPost: can.politics 
 From: Me@hereandnow.com 
  
 "Not Me"  wrote in message 
 news:ys8yg.27489$pu3.364767@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca... 
 > Qu'est ce FUCK is this idiot talking about??? Maybe someone should drown 
 > this idiot now the way Yates did. 
 > "chang"  wrote in message 
 > news:Fj6yg.56$m44.15565@weber.videotron.net... 
 >> for giving to canadian children. If you fvck and make children, it's your 
 >> responsibility to support them; and if children all grow up to be like 
 >> the 
 >> retard trolls in this newsgroup, it's best their mothers drown them like 
 >> Yates did. 
 >> 
 >> 
 >> 
 >> "Brian Bagnall"  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 
 >>> 
 >>> 
 >> 
 >> 
 > 
 > 
  
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