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 XPost: can.politics 
 From: copkat@videtron.ca 
  
 "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. 
  
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