Chinese Head Tax/Exclusion Redress Second Step
Published by Patrick June 27th, 2006 in Racially Visible Tags: Human Rights, Racially Visible.Chinese Head Tax/Exclusion Redress Second Step Subject: BC Coalition Calls Head Tax Families Community Meeting
Vancouver, BC – The BC Coalition of Head Tax Payers, Spouses and Descendants will convene a community meeting to discuss the completion of the two stage framework presented by redress groups to Canadian Heritage Minister and Beverley Oda and Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister Jason Kenney at a March 24, 2006 consultation in Toronto.
- Date: Wednesday June 28, 2006
- Time: 7:00 pm
- Place: SUCCESS, Choi Hall, 28 West Pender, Vancouver
The two stage framework calls for an apology and as well as urgent appropriate redress to surviving head tax payers and spouses. This was completed June 22, 2006. The second step is appropriate redress to head tax payer families to be completed by July 1, 2007, the 60th anniversary of of the Chinese receiving the federal vote and 100th of the Chinatown race riots in Vancouver.
The BC Coalition of Head Tax Payers, Spouses and Descendants are today’s Chinese Canadians. We are from different ages, from all walks of life, all having one thing in common. They or someone in their family paid the head tax. We are neighbours, friends and family who have endured journeys of hardship, sacrifice and suffering due to the effects of more than six decades (62-years) of racial discrimination specifically targeted at the Chinese in Canada.