NDP Leader Adrian Dix

NDP Leader Adrian Dix: NDP Leader Adrian Dix drew back the curtains on some of the bleaker moments of those early days, an epoch when it was no time to be Chinese, or Japanese or South Asian for that matter, either. But it was the Chinese and Japanese, in particular, who were considered the paramount threat and treated almost singularly with contempt. Their banishment from the province would become a single-minded obsession of legislators and the public for more than 70 years. More Related to this Story, according to Globe and Mail. B.C. NDP leader race to heat up in 2014 While British Columbia is often celebrated for its physical beauty and a laid-back, open-minded culture, it is a province rooted in a little-discussed but hard-to-ignore bigoted past. This week we were reminded of just how dark some of that history is. Peter Julian, Fin Donnelly rule out bids to succeed Dix (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.