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 XPost: can.politics 
 From: aplan967@shaw.ca 
  
 "mich"  wrote in message 
 news:Dj3xg.5384$9w.147113@weber.videotron.net... 
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 > "Aeroplan"  wrote in message 
 > news:iG%wg.163101$771.60097@edtnps89... 
 >> 
 >> "Brian Bagnall"  wrote in message 
 >> news:y3%wg.10724$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 
 >> 
 >> 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. 
  
 It's called sarcasm, look into it. 
  
 I heard that Harper wants to give $20000 per head for those who paid the 
 tax.  In contrast, he gives single parents $1200 a year for child care, 
 which is obviously not adequate. 
  
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