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 XPost: can.politics 
 From: aplan967@shaw.ca 
  
 "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? 
  
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