Discriminatory Laws and Chinese Canadians

Chinese Canadians: The Road to Justice exhibit features historical photos and chronicles the legal struggle for equal rights for Chinese Canadians. Its running at the rotunda of the Toronto City Hall Tuesday through Thursday, according to The Star. Laws can be used as a tool to promote justice, but it could just as easily be used as a tool for exclusion. We learn that unjust and discriminatory laws could create devastating impact on an entire community. If we dont heed the lessons of history, we are bound to repeat the same mistakes and Organizers of a new exhibit marked Canada Day by remembering the countrys discriminatory immigration past and cautioning against the repeat of history with recent changes to the law. While Canada today presents itself as a multicultural society which respects the equality of all Canadians regardless of their background, for many decades, laws were used deliberately in Canada to exclude people on the basis of race, said Avvy Go of the Metro Toronto Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.