Re: the Komagata Maru Incident Apology
I’m going to say something racist on British Columbia's 150 birthday.
There are a lot of people of Indian ancestry here in BC. They are from India itself, Kenya, Fiji, the Caribbean and several other places.
While I worked at BC Tel, I got to know people of every imaginable race and they were 99 per cent excellent. The only ones I ever had serious trouble with in my career were exclusively white and male.
When I first heard about this terrible incident, I thought my country should do something to atone for it. The full story is worse than the capsule version revealed by the media recently when our prime minister made his so-called apology.
Canada should have had a Komagata Maru Day, where each of the direct descendants of these spurned immigrants was awarded an acre of good-quality British Columbian real estate. That would have been appropriate.
Our prime minister should have made the apology in Parliament.
Instead, he fumbled it because he is personally incapable of feeling remorse and Canada's wounds remain unhealed.
