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по выплате всем неграм аналогичной компенсации

В связи с этим, подчеркнул Харпер, правительство приняло решение выплатить компенсации семьям, приехавшим из Китая в период действия закона, в размере 18 тысяч долларов.

А ведь речь идет ВСЕГО о 6 китайцах,

Tortilla писал(а):А ведь речь идет ВСЕГО о 6 китайцах, одному из которых 102 года...И использовали их на стро-ве железной дороге, как рабов, еще и издевались...
Совершенно справедливое решение! Плохо только, что пр-во так долго тянуло с этим вопросом...

I explain the main points, having just learned the precise dates myself. I tell him that starting in 1885, the Canadian government charged Chinese people $50 to stay here and, in 1903, it raised that amount to $500. All of this in an effort to make the very workers it had brought here to build the CPR go home.

"Sounds like a great idea," he says. "We should be doing that now." He leaves me open-mouthed.

"We fully accept the moral responsibility to acknowledge these shameful policies of our past ... " Stephen says to the accompaniment of a snort of derision from under the sink.

He emerges again. "They should all be sent back," he says.

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I explain the main points, having just learned the precise dates myself. I tell him that starting in 1885, the Canadian government charged Chinese people $50 to stay here and, in 1903, it raised that amount to $500. All of this in an effort to make the very workers it had brought here to build the CPR go home.

"Sounds like a great idea," he says. "We should be doing that now." He leaves me open-mouthed.

"We fully accept the moral responsibility to acknowledge these shameful policies of our past ... " Stephen says to the accompaniment of a snort of derision from under the sink.

He emerges again. "They should all be sent back," he says.

I consider telling him that I hope to hell he is in the minority