[van-announce] just redress now - leafletting Saturday 11:00am @ Chinese Cultutural Centre...

[Sid Chow Tan]

Yo All. 

Please let your Vancouver contacts know about the one hour leafletting @ 
11:00am outside the CCC to support victims of Chinese Head Tax/Exclusion . See 
following CCNC media release. I'll be there with a few BC Coalition people. At 
noon, we'll decide how to proceed. 

Also will suggest to everyone to bring signs and placards and again muster @ 
1:00pm CCC to greet the Prime Minister @ 2:00pm at SUCCESS in Chinatown (fifty 
yards away). How about "NCCC doesn't speak for me" and Raymond Chan betrays 
Head Tax Payers." I just got a cloth BC Coalition of Head Tax Payers, Spouses 
and Descendants banner made. No Chinese on it though. Take care.    anon   Sid

Media Advisory: November 25, 2005

Redress Seeking Groups Announce Day of Action

Redress-seeking Groups announced plans for a Day of Action to protest the Head 
Tax signing in Ottawa yesterday. BC Coalition of Head Tax Payers, Spouses and 
Descendants and the Ontario Coalition of Chinese Head Tax payers and Families 
with the support of allies and other equality-seeking groups will organize 
public events on Saturday in Vancouver and Toronto. 

"This is lame-duck Liberal government even mistakenly listed the Chinese 
Canadian National Council as one of the groups “supporting” the agreement 
yesterday. We DO NOT support the Head Tax agreement because it excludes the 
actual victims of the Head Tax and Chinese Exclusion Act,” Victor Wong, CCNC 
Executive Director said today. “This speaks to the lack of due diligence on the 
file. There are other groups mistakenly listed as supporters.”

“These mistakes happen when you rush a deal,” Sid Tan, Co-ordinator of BC 
Coalition of Head Tax Payers, Spouses and Descendants said today. “This is 
becoming an expensive election photo-op for taxpayers. Its shameful what the 
Government is doing.” 

"The Prime Minister Paul Martin wasn’t even present at the signing,” George 
Lau, Co-Chair of the Ontario Coalition of Chinese Head Tax payers and Families 
said today. “It speaks to the lack of respect that this Government has for the 
Head Tax payers and their families.”

Vancouver Action:

When:             11:00 am PST - Saturday, November 26, 2005
Where:           Chinese Cultural Centre, 50 East Pender, Vancouver 

Contact:         Sid Tan, Co-ordinator, BC Coalition of Head Tax Payers, 
Spouses and Descendants (604) 433-6169, (604) 783-1853


Toronto Action:
When:             2:00 pm EST - Saturday, November 26, 2005
Where:           Chinatown Centre, 222 Spadina Avenue (in the mall), Toronto 
Contact:         George Lau, Co-Chair, Ontario Coalition of Chinese Head Tax 
Payers and Families (647) 388-1751 (Chinese); Doug Hum, Co-Vice Chair, Ontario 
Coalition of Chinese Head Tax Payers and Families 416-706-7886

Montreal Spokesperson: William Dere, Chinese Canadian Redress Alliance, (514) 
488-0804

The Ontario Coalition of Head Tax Payers and Families and BC Coalition of Head 
Tax Payers Spouses and Descendants consists of Head Tax payers, their surviving 
spouses and descendants.  They are joined in their demands for redress by the 
Chinese Canadian National Council, Chinese Canadian Redress Alliance, the 
Association of Chinese Canadians for Equality and Solidarity Society, and Metro 
Toronto Chinese and South East Asian Legal Clinic.

 

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CCNC media availability for November 26 and 27th is 12:30pm EST at the Bahen 
Centre for Information Technology, 40 St. George Street, Toronto, please 
contact Victor Wong at (647) 282-2262.



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