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The Hong Kong Chinese Community - Online Term Paper

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 powerful...it's nowhere near its
potential." Chow is the highest-profile Hong Kong expatriate to win
elected office in the GTA. Others include Tam Goosen, Soo Wong, Carrie
Cheng, and Peter Lam.
Many are convinced that the reason is because Hong Kong "is a
colonial place where they had no say in government whatsoever." "In Hong
Kong, there's never been any democratic procedure until a few years ago."
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America and Canada is very different from what they saw of politics
in Hong Kong and China."
Dr. Joseph Wong, whose community activism has earned him the Order
of Canada, thinks that despite changes in Chinese attitudes, fear is still
an obstacle towards political evolution. People are not afraid to demand
for 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 federal government to admit more
"boat people" - community members were appalled. "Don't rock the boat" was
exactly what ...

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