Sen. Yuen Pau Woo’s claim that people of Chinese descent in Canada face “contemporary forms of exclusion and discrimination” is divisive and deflects from the Beijing regime’s true tactics, says a former ambassador.
“Senator say (sic) many Canadians hold stereotypical views of Chinese,” former Canadian ambassador to China David Mulroney wrote on Twitter on Feb. 16. “The Senator is setting up a straw man argument that is dangerously divisive and that makes it harder to speak clearly about PRC [People’s Republic of China] tactics.”
Mulroney’s tweet was responding to Woo’s Feb. 14 speech in the Senate on the 100th anniversary of the 1923 Chinese Immigration Act, a.k.a. the Chinese Exclusion Act, which virtually banned all immigration from China to Canada for 24 years until it was repealed in May 1947….