Chinese Head Tax: Jack Layton and Ujjal Dosanjh to 
mark anniversary of turnaround moment

Here's the latest from the Head Tax Families Society planning the anniversary of last year's
pivotal moment when Head Tax Redress became an important election issue for the 2006 
Federal election.  Here's my article from last year's important event: 
Chinese Head Tax: Protest in Vancouver Chinatown

Media Advisory: For Immediate Release - November 24, 2006

New Democrat and Liberal MP's  to Mark Redress with Head Tax Families:
Jack Layton and Ujjal Dosanjh to Observe Seminal Redress Turnaround 
Moment

Vancouver BC  - The Head Tax Families Society of Canada (HTFSC) is
encouraged Jack Layton, Leader of the federal New Democrats, and Ujjal
Dosanjh, former Liberal cabinet minister and B. C. premier, will
observe the turnaround of the Chinese head tax/exclusion redress
struggle at a public forum. Invitees included the Leaders and Greater
Vancouver Members of Parliament of the four parties represented in the
House of Commons, the Leaders of parties and Members of the B. C.'s
legislature and elected officials from the three parties represented
at Vancouver city council.

When: 11:00am Saturday, November 25, 2006
Where: Chinese Cultural Center - Dr. David Lam Hall
             50 East Pender Street, Vancouver

On November 26 last year, the ad hoc B. C. Coalition of Head Tax
Payers, Spouses and Descendants (BC Coalition) organised a march in
Chinatown to protest the then Liberal government's "no apology, no
compensation" agreement. An information line was set up outside a
closed redress conference funded by the government at the Chinese
Cultural Center and a photo opportunity for Prime Minister Paul Martin
at United Chinese Community Enrichment Social Services (SUCCESS). This
action is considered a seminal moment in the redress struggle.

Several days later, the action manifested itself politically. Kanman
Wong and Darrell Reid, who were at the information line and subsequent
Conservative candidates in the 2006 federal election, joined
Conservative John Cummins MP (Delta-Richmond East) to break with the
party position. On December 8, 2005, with the federal election
underway, Conservative leader Stephen Harper promised action on
Chinese head tax/exclusion redress if elected.

The unilateral settlement imposed by the Government will directly
address only 0.6% of affected head tax families. Approximately 600
surviving head tax payers and spouses will receive $20,000 in ex
gratia payments. Over 82,000 Chinese families paid the unjust tax
between 1885 and 1923 in Canada and 1906 to 1949 in Newfoundland
before joining Confederation.

Members of the BC Coalition formed the Head Tax Families Society of
Canada,  a B. C. registered Society with a mandate from over 2,500
written claims for justice and honour for Chinese pioneer families. An
open membership and democratic Society, HTFSC continues  its mission
of meaningful redress for head tax families.

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Redress: One Voice and More Strength Now…

Sid Tan (in green) stands with leading head tax redress campaigners Victor Wong (CCNC executive director) and Gim Wong (WW2 veteran who rode his motorcycle from Victoria to Ottawa to raise awareness).  Sitting are Thomas Soon and Charlie Quan holding the 1st and 2nd cheques presented by Ottawa to surviving head tax payers – photo Todd Wong

Here's a letter from my friend Sid Tan, that summarizes the present state of the head tax redress campaign – after the successful presentation of the first payment cheque to Charlie Quan on Friday October, 20th.  Sid has been active on the head tax redress campaign since the 1980's.

Globe & Mail: Final Hopes realized at last – redress
+ correction

Here is the Petti Fong article in the Globe & Mail.  It was nice to meet Petti at the ceremony.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20061021.BCHEADTAX21/TPStory//BritishColumbia/

Victor Wong, executive director of the Chinese Canadian National Council, sends this correction for the article:

VANCOUVER
— Their combined ages round off to 200, and with all their years lived
and all their dreams fulfilled or forgotten, Charlie Quan and Thomas
Soon each had just one hope left.

The two men wanted to live long enough to see the government
apologize and repay them for the $500 head tax it cost each of them to
enter Canada.

They arrived separately as teenagers and they lived very different
lives. But when Mr. Soon, 97, arrived inside the meeting hall yesterday
and saw Mr. Quan, 99, the two elderly men reached toward each other,
grasped the other's hands and held on as if they were old friends.

“It feels like we've been waiting for this day for a long time,” Mr.
Soon said after receiving his $20,000 cheque from the federal
government for redress. “For many years, I did not have hope it would
happen. I knew I had to live long enough to see it.”

Last week, while in Vancouver, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said
apologizing to the Chinese community for the head tax was the only
thing the government could do to right the decades-old wrong.

The 1923 Exclusion Act, which divided families after an onerous $500
entry fee was put into effect for people coming from China, was a
“moral blemish on our country's soul,” Mr. Harper said. It was finally
lifted in 1947 at the request of Chinese-Canadian soldiers who fought
in the Second World War. The government gave in to their demands for
full citizenship rights and lifted the fee.

Mr. Soon arrived in Canada as a 13-year-old, with the weight of his
family's village on his shoulders. Relatives paid his entry fee and he
was put to work to pay the tax back and send money home to his parents
and siblings.

He did it with pennies saved from the $25 he earned each month working at a vegetable and food stand.

“I didn't think about that too much,” Mr. Soon said when asked if
the debt he had to repay overwhelmed him. “I was too busy working and
saving money.”

When repeatedly asked yesterday about what he planned to do with the money from the government, his answers were simple.

“Take it to the bank. Spend it,” said Mr. Soon, handing the cheque over to his wife Siumui Soon.

Canadian Heritage and Status of Women Minister Bev Oda handed out
three cheques yesterday in Vancouver's Chinatown — to Mr. Soon, Mr.
Quan and Betty Jung, daughter-in-law of Ah Foo Chin, who was unable to
attend in person.

Unlike Mr. Quan, who plans to spend some of the money by taking his family to China, Mr. Soon said he's too old to travel now.

“The only plan I have is maybe dinner with the family,” he said yesterday.

When Sid Tan and Victor Wong, two community activists, first met
Charlie Quan in the mid-1980s and learned he was a head-tax payer, they
promised him they would fight for redress.

“We made him that promise and we never forgot,” said Mr. Wong, the executive director of the Chinese Canadian National Council.

“We knew it was going to be a fight.”

When the association began trying to get redress for head-tax
payers, there were still 2,000 to 3,000 of them living in the 1980s.
But today, just 36 surviving payers have been identified.

The government will pay $20,000 to each living head-tax payer and to spouses of deceased head-tax payers.

Chan Suen, 75, wept as she remembered her father who paid the head tax as a young man and died in the 1960s.

“My heart is very black today,” Ms. Chan said in Cantonese as she wiped tears from her eyes at the ceremony.

While she was glad for Mr. Soon and Mr. Quan, she grieved for her family and the hardship her father suffered.

“The government took this first step and I can't understand why they
can't take the second step and help the family of the people who paid.”

Sid Tan's grandparents are dead and both paid the tax. He said there
are about 81,000 descendents the government won't compensate.

“The Harper government is saying the Chinese do not deserve
justice,” said Mr. Tan, who vowed to continue pressing the government
to provide redress for descendents. “We are building a movement that
will outlast the Harper government.”

For Mr. Quan, who came to Canada as a skinny 15-year-old in 1923 and
worked for 20 years in Leader, Sask., to pay off the $500 fee, he says
his satisfaction on the eve of turning 100 is that he outlasted the
government.

“They kept saying for years they weren't going to pay, but I knew
that one day the government would do the right thing,” he said.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20061021.BCHEADTAX21/TPStory//BritishColumbia/

CCNC:  First Redress Payments Issued On Friday

Here's a news release from the Chinese Canadian National Council in Toronto.

Finally after many years of campaigning, and after many peaceful marches and demonstrations and rallies and meetings… redress payment for the Chinese head tax is happening.  I will be there.

For Immediate Release

October 18, 2006

First Redress Payments Issued On Friday

(Toronto/Vancouver). Representatives of the Chinese Canadian National Council (CCNC) will be attending the presentation of first redress payments to Chinese Head Tax payers in Vancouver on Friday. CCNC representatives include: Colleen Hua, CCNC National President, Sid Chow Tan, CCNC National Director and Victor Wong, CCNC Executive Director.

Where:      S.U.C.C.E.S.S.

            28 West Pender St. , Vancouver , British Columbia

When:       October 20, 2006 at 10:30 am

CCNC and redress groups have led the campaign for redress of the Chinese Head Tax, Newfoundland Head Tax and Chinese Exclusion Act for over 22 years. During this period, CCNC has registered more than 4000 head tax payers and families seeking a just and honourable resolution. On June 22, 2006, Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued a formal apology and announced individual symbolic financial redress to living head tax payers and living spouses of deceased head tax payers.

CCNC and redress groups have been assisting the living head tax payers with their application since late August. “We are very happy for the head tax payers who will be receiving these first payments,” Colleen Hua, CCNC National President said today. “This is a restorative moment for the Chinese Canadian community as we begin a genuine process of reconciliation with the Canadian Government.”

CCNC and redress groups continue to press for redress that is inclusive of all head tax families. “The June 22nd redress announcement covers just over 10% of the head tax families registered with us,” Victor Wong, CCNC Executive Director said today. “We will press for inclusive redress to restore dignity to all head tax families including those where the head tax payer and spouse have both passed away.”

CCNC continues to work with other redress groups including the Ontario Coalition of Chinese Head Tax Payers and Families (Ontario Coalition) and B.C. Coalition of Head Tax Payers, Spouses and Descendants (B.C. Coalition) in the campaign to redress the Chinese Head Tax and Chinese Exclusion Act.

-30-

For more information, please contact Victor Wong at (416) 977-9871.

Sid Tan sends this media release as the first redress cheques will be 
presented in Vancouver on Friday.

Media Advisory: For Immediate Release - October 19, 2006

Outside Inside: Observing A Year of Redress Struggle:
Seminal Moment "On the Streets" Creates Turnaround

Vancouver BC  - The Head Tax Families Society of Canada (HTF),
successor group to the BC Coalition of Head Tax Payers, Spouses and
Descendants (BC Coalition), will observe the turnaround of the Chinese
head tax/exclusion redress struggle with a public forum. Invitees
include Greater Vancouver Members of Parliament from the three parties
represented in the House of Commons, the BC Attorney General and
Minister of Multiculturalism, the three Chinese Canadians sitting on
Vancouver City Council and other elected officials.

When: 11:00am Saturday, November 25, 2006
Where: Chinese Cultural Center - Dr. David Lam Hall
              50 East Pender Street, Vancouver

"Outside Inside" refers to last November 26 when several hundred
people set up an information line in Chinatown. It attended outside a
closed redress conference funded by the government at the Chinese
Cultural Center and a photo opportunity for Prime Minister Paul Martin
at United Chinese Community Enrichment Social Services (SUCCESS). This
"on the streets" action is now considered by many in the redress
movement as a seminal moment in the redress struggle.

At the time, governing Liberals were reaching an Agreement in
Principle (AIP) to direct millions of dollars in a community redress
fund to a pro-Beijing group created in the aftermath of Tiananmen
Square in 1989. Then, the opposition Conservatives were introducing
Private Member's Bill C-333 allowing the Liberal government to direct
millions of dollars to the same group, which would accept the funds on
an agreed precondition of "no apology, no compensation" to head tax
families.

The Chinese Canadian National Council (CCNC) and local Association of
Chinese Canadians for Equality and Solidarity Society (ACCESS), who
were against Bill C-333 and AIP, enlisted head tax families and
supporters to make a strong and definitive statement that the
Government's and Official Opposition's actions were a betrayal. The ad
hoc BC Coalition was revived and called for political participation
and peaceful assembly. Recently, the Head Tax Families Society of
Canada was formed to call for good faith negotiations between the
federal government and representatives of head tax families for a just
and honourable redress to all head tax families.

The unilateral settlement imposed by the Government will directly
address only 0.6% of affected head tax families. Approximately 600
surviving head tax payers and spouses will receive $20,000 in ex
gratia payments. Over 82,000 Chinese families paid the unjust tax
between 1885 and 1923 in Canada and 1906 to 1949 in Newfoundland
before joining Confederation.

-30-

Here's a Georgia Straight story
about how the Harper Conservative government falls short on their
promise to provide a redress that is fair to everybody. 

Harvey Lee and I both became active in the Head Tax redress campaign
at the November 25th rally against then Prime Minister Paul Martin's
feeble attempt to provide redress – by no apology, and no individual
compensation or head tax refund.  It was a day that will go down
in Chinese Canadian history, when head tax descendants told the
government that they wanted a fair redress with negotiation, similar to
the Japanese-Canadian 1988 redress.  We did it with placards,
chants and media interviews.  We told our truth.  see
article:  Chinese Head Tax: Protest in Vancouver Chinatown

The
Conservative's redress package will give $20,000 to surviving head tax
payers and spouses.  But if your father, mother, grandparents, or
great-grandparents died before the Conservatives came to power, then
you are out of luck.  An estimated 81,000 paid the the head tax,
including my grand-father, my great-grandfather and many other family
members. They have all passed on now.  Under the Conservative
program, only and estimated 430 people will recieve a redress
compensation package.  This is 0.6% of the people who paid. 
The Mulroney Conservative government gave $21,000 to each
Japanese-Canadian person born before 1947.

My friend Sid Tan reports that today's
(Oct. 12/06) Sing Tao has Mary Yang's exclusive interview with PM
Harper. In the interview, Harper says “that's it”for head tax/exclusion
redress from his government.   Sid Tan says”

Head-tax redress fails to account for total toll

http://www.straight.com/content.cfm?id=21219

By charlie smith

Publish Date: 12-Oct-2006

Harvey Lee, whose family was forced apart by racist immigration laws,
says Stephen Harper’s reparations have come to appear largely
political.

A
Vancouver man has attributed the death of his mother to the Chinese
head tax. But he won’t be among those receiving federal compensation
because his parents died before Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced
that $20,000 payments will go to surviving head-tax payers and their
spouses.

Harvey Lee, a retiree, told his tale to the Georgia
Straight shortly before attending an October 10 dinner at Floata
restaurant in Chinatown. “There are a lot of descendants who suffered
just as much as their parents did due to the head tax and the exclusion
act,” Lee said. “Myself, I was separated from my family for years. I
was a teenager before I got to see my father.”

At the dinner,
Prime Minister Stephen Harper spoke of his pride about issuing an
apology for the head tax, which he described as “a moral blemish on our
country’s soul”. Harper also emphasized how “especially important and
satisfying” it was to him that his government will make payments to
survivors.

Beginning in 1885, the Canadian government imposed a
$50 fee on Chinese immigrants, which was raised to $100 in 1900 and to
$500 in 1903. Vancouver East NDP MP Libby Davies told Parliament that
this would be the equivalent of about $30,000 in 2005 dollars. In 1923,
the government passed a law, which wasn’t lifted until 1947, banning
almost all Chinese immigration.

Lee said that his father paid
the $500 head tax when he came to Canada in 1910. His mother paid the
$500 fee when she arrived nine years later. He said his mother
eventually took the family back to China because of all the racism in
Canada, and Lee was born in Hong Kong in 1939. His father stayed in
Canada, eventually operating a restaurant in Souris, Manitoba.

When
war broke out in the Far East, the family was separated. Lee said that
his mother could have avoided the hostilities and legally returned to
Canada because she had already paid the head tax. However, Lee said,
she remained in China because she didn’t want to leave him as a little
baby with relatives. Canadian law at the time banned the children of
head-tax payers from entering the country, so Lee wouldn’t have been
permitted into Canada with his mother.

In 1943, Lee said, his
mother was killed by Japanese invaders while she was trying to flee
with her family. He was only four years old at the time. “She
sacrificed her life,” Lee said, wiping a tear from his eye. “She died
because she couldn’t bring me over.”

He then apologized, saying
that he gets emotional every time he tells this story. “My grandmother
brought me up until after the war. Then my dad sent for us, and then my
brother and I came over.”

Lee said he arrived in Canada in 1951
when he was 12 years old. He eventually went on to a career in
management, but expressed regret that he never got to know his father
very well. “We never really bonded,” he said. “That was another problem
with the separation.”

When asked how he feels about Harper’s
handling of the head-tax issue, Lee replied, “Initially, he started
well. He kept his promise of the apology. But the redress has fallen a
little bit short. It’s a little bit more politics there than it is
redress.”

At a demonstration outside the event, Sid Tan,
president of the Association of Chinese Canadians for Equality and
Solidarity, said that only 0.6 percent of head-tax families will be
redressed because the vast majority of head-tax payers and their
spouses died before Harper issued a federal apology last June. “We want
the other 99.4 percent of head-tax families to be redressed,” Tan
shouted.

Moments later, the crowd joined him in a chant, “Head tax, redress, head tax, redress…”

Prime Minister Stephen Harper came to Vancouver Chinatown for a dinner
meeting with Chinese business community.  It was organized by
Jimmy Fong, president of Vancouver's Community Care and Advancement
Association. 

Several ironies appeared.  Harper made the announcement that
payments for Head Tax Compensation would happen soon.  But the two
of the leading organizations responsible for the head tax redress
awareness, ACCESS and Head Tax Families Association, were not invited
to the dinner.

Several community groups staged a protest because: the majority (99%)
of head tax families have been excluded from the redress payments; and
of the “new government's positions on the War in Afghanistan.

As well, as reporter for Ming Pao was battered because he was attacked by a frustrated motorist. 
see: http://chineseinvancouver.blogspot.com/2006/10/reporter-battered.html

Head tax compensation to be paid soon:
Harper

Updated Wed. Oct. 11
2006 11:14 AM ET

CTV.ca News Staff

Ottawa will
begin to redress the head tax once applied to Chinese immigrants with payments
to survivors in the next few weeks, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said.

Speaking
at a dinner hosted by a Chinese immigrant group, Harper said Tuesday it's
important that this happen now while some of those who paid the tax to enter
Canada
are still alive to receive the symbolic $20,000 payments.

Harper
called the tax “a moral blemish on our country's soul.”

Harper
recognized contributions that the Chinese community has made, including
building of the CP Railway.

He
said Canada
as it exists today wouldn't be possible without the efforts of the Chinese
community.

“You
are part of our family,” he said.

Harper
formally apologized to Chinese-Canadians for the tax in Parliament on June 22,
calling it a “grave injustice.”

Vancouver's
Community Care and Advancement Association president Johnny Fong, thanked
Harper Tuesday for the government's apology.

“Your
apology at the House of Commons this year has brought tremendous relief to so
many in the community,'' Fong told Harper.

The
prime minister said the government's decision was long overdue.

“Apologizing
for the head tax was simply the right thing to do,” he said.

The
Association of Chinese Canadians for Equality, however, said Tuesday that
Ottawa has been slow to
address the issue.

“He
only addressed point-six per cent of the head tax families — less than one per
cent — of the head tax families that have survivors,” the association's
Sid Tan told The Canadian Press at a protest outside the dinner for Harper.

“What
he has done is rewarded the government for dragging its feet for over 20 years.
Shame on them for that.”

It
is believed there are about 400 surviving head-tax payers or their widows from
an estimated 81,000 immigrants who paid the tax between 1885 and 1923 when the
federal government tried to restrict Chinese immigration.

The
tax, which was set at $50 when it was imposed in 1885, rose to $500 in 1903 —
then the equivalent of two years' wages.

Collection
of the tax ended when the Exclusion Act came into effect in 1923, effectively
barring immigration from China
until it was repealed in 1947.

With
files from The Canadian Press

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061011/head_tax_061011/20061011?hub=TopStories

PM lauded and protested in Chinatown

Oct, 11 2006 – 12:50 AM

VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980)
– While Stephen Harper was being praised inside for being the first Prime
Minister in 50 years to address the historical head tax on Chinese immigrants,
protestors outside a dinner with Vancouver 's
Chinese Business community weren't as happy with Harper.

The Head Tax Families Society of Canada was one of 30 groups that supported a
protest outside last night's event.

Meena Wong says Harper's head tax re-dress recognizes fewer than one per cent of
the families who suffered under the financial weight, “There's
approximately 81-thousand who paid the head tax and the Harper Government only
addressed the survivors as well as their spouses which is about 500.”

The group
is lobbying for what they call complete and proper re-dress.

A 99-year
old head tax survivor was among those that presented Harper with a gift last
night, acknowleding his Government's apology in the House of Commons.

http://www.cknw.com/news/news_local.cfm?cat=7428218912&rem=49509&red=80121823aPBIny&wids=410&gi=1&gm=news_local.cfm

Chinese head tax redress payments starting soon: PM

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 | 8:30 AM ET

CBC
News

The federal government will begin to redress the
Chinese head tax with payments to survivors within the next few
weeks, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said.

Speaking Tuesday in Vancouver
at a dinner hosted by a Chinese immigrant group, Harper called the tax “a
moral blemish on our country's soul.”

Johnny Fong of the Community Care and
Advancement Association speaks after Prime Minister Harper's announcement on
the start of Chinese head-tax payments.
(CBC)

The prime minister formally
apologized to Chinese-Canadians in the House of Commons in June and offered a
symbolic payment of $20,000 to the roughly 400 survivors or their widows.

Those payments will begin in the next few weeks, he said.

“Addressing it directly and honestly has been an
issue we felt strongly about for some time,” said Harper.
“Apologizing for the head tax was simply the right thing to do and it was
long overdue.”

Imposed between 1885 and 1923, the tax ranged from $50 to
$500. It's estimated about 82,000 Chinese paid the fee until the Exclusion Act
came into effect in 1923, effectively banning further immigration from
China
until 1947.

Harper said the redress payment was a token and can't
make up for the suffering caused by the tax.

Johnny Fong, president of Vancouver's Community Care and
Advancement Association, said Chinese-Canadians appreciate the recognition.

“Your apology at the House of Commons to the
affected families has brought tremendous relief to so many in the
community,” he said.

With files from the Canadian
Press

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/10/11/head-tax.html

Head-tax survivors to get cash soon0

JEREMY HAINSWORTH

Canadian Press

VANCOUVER ¡ª Symbolic redress payments to Chinese
head tax survivors will begin in the next few weeks, Prime Minister Stephen
Harper says.

It is important that this happen now while some of
those who paid the tax to enter Canada
are still living, Mr. Harper said.

Speaking at a dinner hosted by a Chinese immigrant
group, he called the tax ¡°a moral blemish on our country's soul.¡±

Mr. Harper recognized several contributions of the
Chinese community, including building of the CP Railway.

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He said
Canada as it exists today would not
have been possible without the Chinese community's efforts.

¡°You are part of our family,¡± he said.

Mr. Harper apologized for the tax in Parliament on
June 22.

In doing so, he offered compensation for what he
called ¡°a great injustice.¡±

On Tuesday, Johnny Fong, president of Vancouver's
Community Care and Advancement Association, thanked Mr. Harper for the
government's apology to the Chinese community.

¡°Your apology at the House of Commons this year has
brought tremendous relief to so many in the community,¡± Mr. Fong said.

The Prime Minister responded that the government's
decision wasn't brave.

¡°Apologizing for the head tax was simply the right
thing to do, and it was long overdue,¡± he said.

Mr. Harper also acknowledged that many ancestors of
Chinese Canadians faced large amounts of prejudice and discrimination when they
arrived in Canada .

He said the $20,000 payments are just a token that
cannot make up for the suffering imposed on families who had to scrimp to pay
the tax or who were cut off from their families by the 1923 Exclusion Act,
which effectively banned further immigration from China until 1947.

The Association of Chinese Canadians for Equality,
however, said Tuesday that the government has dragged its feet on the redress
issue.

¡°He only addressed point-six per cent of the head tax
families ¨C less than one per cent ¨C of the head tax families that have
survivors,¡± the association's Sid Tan said at a protest outside the dinner for
Harper.

¡°What he has done is rewarded the government for
dragging its feet for over 20 years. Shame on them for that.¡±

It is believed there are about 400 surviving head-tax
payers or their widows.

They are the remnants of an estimated 81,000
immigrants who paid the tax, which was set at $50 when it was imposed in 1885.

It rose to $500 in 1903 ¨C then the equivalent of two
years' wages.

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