CBC:
Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologized Sunday for the 1914 Komagata Maru incident in which hundreds of Indians seeking a better life in Canada were turned away.Harper was speaking to a crowd of about 8,000 people in Surrey, B.C., which has a large Indian community.
But as soon as he left the stage members of the Sikh community rushed to the podium denouncing the apology and said they wanted it made on the floor of the House of Commons.
"The apology was unacceptable," said Jaswinder Singh Toor, president of The Descendants of Komagatamaru Society.
If it makes you feel better, I have it on good authority that Harper doesn't really care for it either.
Comments (4)
Gee, that's too bad. Apology withdrawn. it should never have been issued in the first place.
Why doesn't the PM just find a museum display of Neanderthal bones and make a formal apology to them on behalf of all homo sapiens for all evets in the past and anything that any group in the future takes offence to. That should just about cover all these whiners who I never hear apologizing on behalf of their countries or races for all the much worse atrocities they have committed.
Posted by Powell Lucas | August 4, 2008 11:05 PM
Posted on August 4, 2008 23:05
I wounder how many of these "leaders" are Liberals trying to embarrass Harper?
Posted by Fiumara | August 5, 2008 1:14 AM
Posted on August 5, 2008 01:14
Maybe, if for every 100 times I saw a "community spokesperson" bitch, moan and shit on Canada I saw one of these ingrates actually thank Canada for welcoming them and their community, I'd be less inclined to tell Jaswinder Singh Toor to eff off.
Posted by Marc | August 5, 2008 5:04 PM
Posted on August 5, 2008 17:04
Pretty much what I thought when I read it. The man goes out of his way to tender an (unnecessary) apology where the people it's addressed to will actually hear it, and gets nothing but bitching.
Ca fait pas de sense.
Posted by Pepperbar | August 5, 2008 6:06 PM
Posted on August 5, 2008 18:06