Posted on 11/17/2005 7:59:36 PM PST by proud_yank
Ottawa is set to pay millions of dollars in compensation to descendants of Chinese workers who were charged a head tax to enter the country, CBC News has learned.
The government has agreed to acknowledge the tax was discriminatory and will pay $12.5 million into a new foundation. The agreement comes following negotiations with the the National Congress of Chinese Canadians, a group appointed to negotiate redress.
The federal government imposed a $50 head tax on Chinese immigrants in 1885 after Chinese workers were no longer needed to work on the Canadian Pacific Railway.
The amount was raised to $500 in 1903. In 1923 the head tax was replaced by the Exclusion Act, which barred Chinese immigrants from the country altogether. The tax was the equivalent of about two years' wages at the time. About 80,000 Chinese were singled out.
It wasn't fully repealed until 1967.
The Congress said it is willing to hear proposals about how the money should be spent.
My God.... They're taxing everything these days!
So here are just some of the groups the liberals feel
the country owes money to.....and they are furiously payin them off.
Japanese, Italians, Chinese.........
Bet ya fifty bucks they will start paying money to visible
minorities or refugees who enter the country for "undue
hardships" they may suffered in their own country.
Pathetic.
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