U.N. Report Suggests Canada Pay Reparations

ASSOCIATED PRESS ^ | March 12, 2004 | ASSOCIATED PRESS

[fella]

March 12, 2004

U.N. Report Suggests Canada Pay Reparations

ASSOCIATED PRESS

TORONTO (AP) - A draft United Nations report says Canada should consider paying reparations for the immigrant tax once levied on Chinese and to blacks ousted from a town in 1970.

The report was produced by special U.N. investigator Doudou Diene, who spent 10 days in Canada in September canvassing various groups and individuals about racism, intolerance and discrimination.

He offered 15 recommendations, two of which suggested reparations. The recommendations are nonbinding.

Canada's minister for multiculturalism rejected the concept of reparations, saying the government opposes payouts.

"The government policy remains no financial compensation," Jean Augustine said in an interview Friday.

Canada did compensate Japanese-Canadians in 1988 for wartime internment policies, but that was under the government of a different ruling party.

Between 1885 and 1923, Chinese immigrants were charged a head tax to enter Canada. The tax, which varied from $37.50 to $375, is said to have collected $17.3 million, and some members of the Chinese-Canadian community have demanded compensation.

Africville was a black settlement dating to the 1700s in what now is Halifax, Nova Scotia. Over the years, as Halifax grew, Africville was hemmed in by industrial areas.

"After 150 years of collusion between the provincial government and the business community ... in 1970, all of the community was forcefully removed without proper compensation," the report said.

The report also called for a national commission to fight discrimination and promote multiculturalism.

The report was presented to the Canadian Mission at the United Nations in New York and forwarded to the Canadian Ministry of Heritage in Ottawa.

[fella]

Ubuse of civil rights in "The Great White North"?

[GeronL]

An anti-western bigot spends 10 days in Canada and decides what they should do with their lives. Another good reason to paint a big terrorist target on the UN building.

[spyone]

I fail to see how charging an immigrant a fee to enter the country is deserving of compensation. It seems they felt it was worth it and willingly paid the fee to enter.

[MEG33]

Good Grief...

[GeronL]

They want open borders and the free movement of people, just like Bush and the Wall Street Journal.

[MEG33]

An exagerration about Bush.

[GeronL]

a very small exageration

[atomic conspiracy]

"After 150 years of collusion between the provincial government and the business community"

Sheesh, conspiracies must be slow in Canada, and what an amazing thing to find a business community so stable it can work on the same nefarious plan for 150 years. This entire report is a socialist fantasy.

[atomic conspiracy]

This is what happens when you appease multicult fantasy ideologues. Like terrorists and other gangsters, they only increase their demands.

[henderson field]

Yes, the Wall Street Journal used to be a fairly unbiased newspaper. But now with their unflagging endorsement of unlimited immigration and also the Global Economy experiment, they're not the paper they used to be. Not by a long shot. I miss the old Wall Street Journal.

[goldstategop]

Its DOA even in a Canada ruled by a Liberal Government. This is one idea that has zero chance of making it through Parliament.

[VOA]

Africville was a black settlement dating to the 1700s in what now is Halifax,
Nova Scotia. Over the years, as Halifax grew, Africville was hemmed in by industrial areas.

"After 150 years of collusion between the provincial government and the
business community ... in 1970, all of the community was forcefully removed without
proper compensation," the report said.

Talk about yer Great WHITE North!

And the Prime Minister of Canada at the time was that icon of benevolent socialism...
Pierre Trudeau

[xp38]

Canada's minister for multiculturalism rejected the concept of reparations, saying the government opposes payouts. "The government policy remains no financial compensation," Jean Augustine said in an interview Friday.

Interesting juxtaposition of sentences. You'd almost think Jean Augustine was the minister in question. Jean isn't the minister but happens to be my local MP and a rather large black woman. It seems the Libs used her to run interference here for the GWN. The actual multicult minister is a white woman from Quebec.

[VOA]

Hope you didn't think I was giving a blanket dissing of Canada.
I was just noting the irony that this eviction of a black enclave happened on Trudeau's watch.

[xp38]

Dis away. I loath the libs. But to be fair if that Africville policy was a Nova Scotia provincial deal Trudeau wouldn't have been involved I imagine. It would be like blaming Bush for some stupid state policy in Maine say.

[VOA]

It would be like blaming Bush for some stupid state policy in Maine say.

Gotcha! Thanks for the pointer.

[DustyMoment]

I want MY reparations for having to read about all this reparations nonsense!!

Geez, let it GO, already!!!

[Right_in_Virginia]

The report was produced by special U.N. investigator Doudou Diene, who spent 10 days in Canada in September canvassing various groups and individuals about racism, intolerance and discrimination.

Under whose authority was a "special U.N. investigator" working?

[samtheman]

When is the UN going to start paying reparations to the Iraqi people for ripping off their oil-for-food program?

When is the UN going to start paying reparations to Rawanda for standing by and doing nothing when 800,000 people were massacred?

When is the UN going to start paying reparations to the African continent for hosting a "Conference on Racism" that criticized the practice of slavery in the 19th century but did nothing to prevent the African slave-trade of the 21st century?

When is the UN going to start paying reparations to the people of NYC for unpaid parking tickets and misuse of otherwise valuable real-estate?

When is the UN going to start paying reparations to the USA for wasting our time with their schemes, scandals, and scum-bag politics?

When is the UN going to start paying reparations to the Civlized World for their continuing affronts to Common Decency?

(Just curious.)