看到几个消息,联系起来看看:
1) 2005/08/24,加拿大政府承认乌克兰裔加拿大人(200多人受影响)在一战中,受到非人道待遇.政府将出资建纪念碑.
2) 数万日本侨民在二战时被加拿大政府送进集中营,加拿大政府给了数亿元赔偿,并在各种场合检讨对日本侨民的不公正待遇.
http://www.comefromchina.com/newbbs/showthread.php?s=&threadid=345684
3) 近一个世纪来直到1950年,几十万华人在加拿大一直受到歧视(从人头税,到不让夫妻团圆等),到现在为之,加拿大政府还没有给出赔偿,没有建任何纪念设施.
4) 胡锦涛主席来访,正反两方华人摇旗呐喊,为拥胡倒共而激扬文字.但是没有社区领袖利用胡来访,为华人人头税等说点什么.你不说,祖国的贵宾自然不好给主人说什么?
5) 胡锦涛主席来访,本地记者唐突的拮问中国主席关于中国人权状况,主席说:"中国人权有改善,中加关系需要双方互相理解尊重各自对人权的理解.....".
当西方责怪中国的人权的时候,当西方领导人,媒体责问中国针对少数民族权益的时候,为什么中国的领导人或记者没有反问加拿大是如何对待百年华人冤屈的???? 怕影响中加关系,还是不利于华人的面子? 在人权方面,主人顾及客人的面子了吗????
当背着百年冤屈的华人们和留学生们喜气洋洋地迎送祖国贵宾的时候,是否感到缺点什么?
当宣扬民主的精英们给这里的民主制度大唱赞歌的时候,是否也好好想想?
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什么时候华裔加拿大人能够得到公正？
加国无忧 2005年09月13日，来源：多伦多都市报
本网注：此文为《多伦多都市报》最近一期“一周精选话题”中的部分内容，为该报编译的 Toronto Star 的文章，原作者 Avvy Go
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2005年8月24日，对乌克兰裔加拿大人来讲是重要的一天。这天，加拿大政府承认在第一次世界大战中乌克兰裔加拿大人确实受到了不公正待遇，人权被剥夺。
马丁总理称之为“我们历史上黑暗的一章” ，并宣布将投资250万来修纪念碑教育后代不要忘记这些。但是，乌克兰后裔不是唯一受到歧视的少数民族。
很多加拿大人都记得在二战中日裔加拿大人所受到的可耻待遇，他们被迫进入临时集中营，被剥夺一切权力和尊严。但很少有人知道，那时德裔和意大利裔都遭受过类似待遇。
如果这些做法可以用“战争”做借口，那么对于华裔的歧视是没有这种借口的。
在1881至1885年间，加拿大最需要劳动力修铁路的时候，他们引进了差不多一万名华裔移民。之后，加拿大政府就开始收华裔移民每人$50的人头税，到1904年人头税增加到每人$500。这项收费到1923年排斥法出现而停止，加拿大政府在81000名华裔移民身上共收了2300万元人头税。
Shack Jang Mack是1923年，他13岁时来到加拿大的，他到达之后被关在小黑屋子里达六个星期，每天只给一片面包。一直到交了五百元人头税后他才被放出去。他的父亲是早期来修铁路的移民，但这也不足以使他免交这项歧视性的税。1928年他回中国娶妻，但是因为排斥法，他不能带她来。他们一直分居了22年，到1950年排斥法取消3年后她才移民加拿大。
2000年，Mack控告加拿大政府要求补偿，而安省法院却以此案无法律依据而拒绝立案。2003年3月，在联邦最高法院拒绝他上诉的一个月后，Mack去世。
随着人头税的受难者的减少，联邦政府可以继续忽视要求正义的呼声。政府说如果给华裔经济补偿的话，别的族裔也会做同样的事。而政府几乎已经给了其它所有被歧视族裔补偿，这种说法就显得越来越弱。华裔加拿大人已经是最后一个没得到政府承认的牺牲品了，2300万可以让加拿大历史“黑暗的一章” 彻底结束，难道这个要求太高了？(编译 唯一)
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When will Chinese Canadians get justice?
Surely it's time Ottawa put to rest shame of head tax and compensated victims, says Avvy Go
Aug.. 24, 2005 marked a significant day for the Ukrainian Canadian community.
On that day the government of Canada officially acknowledged that Ukrainian Canadians were unjustly interned and were deprived of their civil rights during World War I.
Calling it a "dark chapter" of our history, Prime Minister Paul Martin announced a $2.5 million fund for commemorative plaques and educational tools to remind Canadians of our not-so-pristine past. Ukrainian Canadians are not alone when it comes to Canada's historical record of mistreatment of minorities.
Most Canadians are familiar with the shameful manner in which Japanese Canadians were treated as "enemy aliens" during World War II, when thousands upon thousands of Japanese Canadians were sent into internment camps and stripped of their properties, their rights and dignity. Perhaps less well known, are the cases of internment of German and Italian Canadians, also during wartime.
If these gross injustices could somehow be "excused" by the war, the same does not apply to the case of Chinese Canadians.
Canada welcomed Chinese when the country needed their labour to build the Canadian Pacific Railroad, and more than 10,000 Chinese immigrants were brought in between 1881 and 1885 for that purpose. But as soon as the last spike was driven in, the Canadian government imposed a $50 head tax on all Chinese immigrants, which was increased to $500 in 1904.
The head tax was replaced in 1923 with the Chinese Exclusion Act that barred all but a handful of Chinese immigrants to Canada. In total, Canada collected more than $23 million from 81,000 or so Chinese immigrants.
Shack Jang Mack was among those who had paid the head tax. At the tender age of 13, Mack left China in 1922 to embark on his trip to Canada. He spent his first six weeks here in a dark cell inside the Canada Customs Detention Building, where Chinese detainees were given a slice of bread every day.
Mack was released only after paying the $500 Head Tax. The fact that Mack's father was among the pioneers who worked on the CPR did not exempt him from the racist tax.
Mack returned to China to marry his wife in 1928. But he could not bring her to Canada due to the Exclusion Act.
He would visit her in China after he had saved enough money to pay for his journey but he had to return to Canada within two years or pay another head tax. After 22 years of separation, Mack was finally reunited with his wife in 1950, three years after the exclusion act was repealed.
Mack was among a group of surviving head-tax payers and widows who, for the past 20 years, have been seeking redress for their sufferings as a result of legislated racism.
In 2000, Mack sued the Canadian government. While finding that Ottawa had a moral obligation to redress its "reprehensible" past, an Ontario court nevertheless ruled there was no legal ground for the case to go forward.
Mack died in March 2003, a month before the Supreme Court of Canada turned down his appeal.
As the number of surviving head-tax payers continues to shrink, Ottawa continues to ignore their plea for justice.
If we compensate the Chinese, says the government, it would set an unwelcome precedent and lead to a "floodgate" of claims. But the "floodgate" argument is becoming weaker every day as Canada continues to redress almost every other single case of historical injustice.
After the Japanese Canadians, the Marine merchants, the First Nations Veterans, and now the Ukrainian Canadians, Chinese Canadians are quickly becoming the last group of victims who have yet to receive any acknowledgement from their government for their role in building this country and the "thanks" they got in return.
A symbolic return of $23 million will help redress one of the last remaining unresolved "dark chapters" of our history. Is that really too much to ask?
1) 2005/08/24,加拿大政府承认乌克兰裔加拿大人(200多人受影响)在一战中,受到非人道待遇.政府将出资建纪念碑.
2) 数万日本侨民在二战时被加拿大政府送进集中营,加拿大政府给了数亿元赔偿,并在各种场合检讨对日本侨民的不公正待遇.
http://www.comefromchina.com/newbbs/showthread.php?s=&threadid=345684
3) 近一个世纪来直到1950年,几十万华人在加拿大一直受到歧视(从人头税,到不让夫妻团圆等),到现在为之,加拿大政府还没有给出赔偿,没有建任何纪念设施.
4) 胡锦涛主席来访,正反两方华人摇旗呐喊,为拥胡倒共而激扬文字.但是没有社区领袖利用胡来访,为华人人头税等说点什么.你不说,祖国的贵宾自然不好给主人说什么?
5) 胡锦涛主席来访,本地记者唐突的拮问中国主席关于中国人权状况,主席说:"中国人权有改善,中加关系需要双方互相理解尊重各自对人权的理解.....".
当西方责怪中国的人权的时候,当西方领导人,媒体责问中国针对少数民族权益的时候,为什么中国的领导人或记者没有反问加拿大是如何对待百年华人冤屈的???? 怕影响中加关系,还是不利于华人的面子? 在人权方面,主人顾及客人的面子了吗????
当背着百年冤屈的华人们和留学生们喜气洋洋地迎送祖国贵宾的时候,是否感到缺点什么?
当宣扬民主的精英们给这里的民主制度大唱赞歌的时候,是否也好好想想?
======================================================================
什么时候华裔加拿大人能够得到公正？
加国无忧 2005年09月13日，来源：多伦多都市报
本网注：此文为《多伦多都市报》最近一期“一周精选话题”中的部分内容，为该报编译的 Toronto Star 的文章，原作者 Avvy Go
________________________
2005年8月24日，对乌克兰裔加拿大人来讲是重要的一天。这天，加拿大政府承认在第一次世界大战中乌克兰裔加拿大人确实受到了不公正待遇，人权被剥夺。
马丁总理称之为“我们历史上黑暗的一章” ，并宣布将投资250万来修纪念碑教育后代不要忘记这些。但是，乌克兰后裔不是唯一受到歧视的少数民族。
很多加拿大人都记得在二战中日裔加拿大人所受到的可耻待遇，他们被迫进入临时集中营，被剥夺一切权力和尊严。但很少有人知道，那时德裔和意大利裔都遭受过类似待遇。
如果这些做法可以用“战争”做借口，那么对于华裔的歧视是没有这种借口的。
在1881至1885年间，加拿大最需要劳动力修铁路的时候，他们引进了差不多一万名华裔移民。之后，加拿大政府就开始收华裔移民每人$50的人头税，到1904年人头税增加到每人$500。这项收费到1923年排斥法出现而停止，加拿大政府在81000名华裔移民身上共收了2300万元人头税。
Shack Jang Mack是1923年，他13岁时来到加拿大的，他到达之后被关在小黑屋子里达六个星期，每天只给一片面包。一直到交了五百元人头税后他才被放出去。他的父亲是早期来修铁路的移民，但这也不足以使他免交这项歧视性的税。1928年他回中国娶妻，但是因为排斥法，他不能带她来。他们一直分居了22年，到1950年排斥法取消3年后她才移民加拿大。
2000年，Mack控告加拿大政府要求补偿，而安省法院却以此案无法律依据而拒绝立案。2003年3月，在联邦最高法院拒绝他上诉的一个月后，Mack去世。
随着人头税的受难者的减少，联邦政府可以继续忽视要求正义的呼声。政府说如果给华裔经济补偿的话，别的族裔也会做同样的事。而政府几乎已经给了其它所有被歧视族裔补偿，这种说法就显得越来越弱。华裔加拿大人已经是最后一个没得到政府承认的牺牲品了，2300万可以让加拿大历史“黑暗的一章” 彻底结束，难道这个要求太高了？(编译 唯一)
=====================================================================
When will Chinese Canadians get justice?
Surely it's time Ottawa put to rest shame of head tax and compensated victims, says Avvy Go
Aug.. 24, 2005 marked a significant day for the Ukrainian Canadian community.
On that day the government of Canada officially acknowledged that Ukrainian Canadians were unjustly interned and were deprived of their civil rights during World War I.
Calling it a "dark chapter" of our history, Prime Minister Paul Martin announced a $2.5 million fund for commemorative plaques and educational tools to remind Canadians of our not-so-pristine past. Ukrainian Canadians are not alone when it comes to Canada's historical record of mistreatment of minorities.
Most Canadians are familiar with the shameful manner in which Japanese Canadians were treated as "enemy aliens" during World War II, when thousands upon thousands of Japanese Canadians were sent into internment camps and stripped of their properties, their rights and dignity. Perhaps less well known, are the cases of internment of German and Italian Canadians, also during wartime.
If these gross injustices could somehow be "excused" by the war, the same does not apply to the case of Chinese Canadians.
Canada welcomed Chinese when the country needed their labour to build the Canadian Pacific Railroad, and more than 10,000 Chinese immigrants were brought in between 1881 and 1885 for that purpose. But as soon as the last spike was driven in, the Canadian government imposed a $50 head tax on all Chinese immigrants, which was increased to $500 in 1904.
The head tax was replaced in 1923 with the Chinese Exclusion Act that barred all but a handful of Chinese immigrants to Canada. In total, Canada collected more than $23 million from 81,000 or so Chinese immigrants.
Shack Jang Mack was among those who had paid the head tax. At the tender age of 13, Mack left China in 1922 to embark on his trip to Canada. He spent his first six weeks here in a dark cell inside the Canada Customs Detention Building, where Chinese detainees were given a slice of bread every day.
Mack was released only after paying the $500 Head Tax. The fact that Mack's father was among the pioneers who worked on the CPR did not exempt him from the racist tax.
Mack returned to China to marry his wife in 1928. But he could not bring her to Canada due to the Exclusion Act.
He would visit her in China after he had saved enough money to pay for his journey but he had to return to Canada within two years or pay another head tax. After 22 years of separation, Mack was finally reunited with his wife in 1950, three years after the exclusion act was repealed.
Mack was among a group of surviving head-tax payers and widows who, for the past 20 years, have been seeking redress for their sufferings as a result of legislated racism.
In 2000, Mack sued the Canadian government. While finding that Ottawa had a moral obligation to redress its "reprehensible" past, an Ontario court nevertheless ruled there was no legal ground for the case to go forward.
Mack died in March 2003, a month before the Supreme Court of Canada turned down his appeal.
As the number of surviving head-tax payers continues to shrink, Ottawa continues to ignore their plea for justice.
If we compensate the Chinese, says the government, it would set an unwelcome precedent and lead to a "floodgate" of claims. But the "floodgate" argument is becoming weaker every day as Canada continues to redress almost every other single case of historical injustice.
After the Japanese Canadians, the Marine merchants, the First Nations Veterans, and now the Ukrainian Canadians, Chinese Canadians are quickly becoming the last group of victims who have yet to receive any acknowledgement from their government for their role in building this country and the "thanks" they got in return.
A symbolic return of $23 million will help redress one of the last remaining unresolved "dark chapters" of our history. Is that really too much to ask?
