Federal Issues

federal issues: But most people are a bit vague on the details. There was a head tax and some racist immigration policies, but those were federal issues for which the government of Canada apologized eight years ago. , according to Times Colonist. So the politicians are still playing the angles on what is supposed to be a bipartisan issue. The formal apology to Chinese-Canadians by the B.C. government for the way their ancestors were treated is still in the works. Some of the details are filled out in an exhaustive list of retroactively offensive business conducted in the legislature from the 1870s to the 1930s. The B.C. New Democrats released it Wednesday to prompt the B.C. Liberals to take the apology seriously. But the government recently posted the entire list on a website devoted to the apology embracebc.ca (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.