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The Hong Kong Chinese Community
The Hong Kong Chinese community is an affluent, educated, and
swelling population in the Greater Toronto Area. The enigma is why they
have only made marginal inroads into the political arena.
Olivia Chow, a Metro councilor representing the Downtown ward says
"this community has potential to be very ....
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.... equal rights but the so-called mainstream politics and elected office
is still baffling to the Chinese. The Chinese community's history in
Canada also plays a major role in its reluctance to venture into politics.
Following the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the federal
government imposed a heavy head tax on new Chinese immigrants. Only from
the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Trudeau government liberalization of
immigration that Chinese people came to Canada from Hong Kong. In 1979 ,
he organized a demonstration to urge the feder ....
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