Japanese Canadians Dept: However children of those head tax payers who died before the apology was issued are now asking to be included in the apology and to be eligible for the payments, according to Globe And Mail. “This was not the case with respect to the redress for the displacement of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War, for the students of Indian Residential Schools, or any other group,” he said and prime Minister Stephen Harper formally apologized on June 22, 2006 to those who paid the discriminatory tax from 1885 to 1923 and the federal government offered a symbolic payment of $20,000 to survivors who had paid the tax – or their spouses, if the head tax payer was deceased. “There is no precedent for providing ex gratia payments to descendants of those effected by historical events or policies,” Jason Kenney, minister of citizenship, immigration and multiculturalism, said Friday in an e-mail response to questions. As
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