{"id":44103,"date":"2014-05-16T00:14:24","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T00:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/british_columbia_apologizes_for_past_discriminatory_policies_towards_chines\/"},"modified":"2014-05-16T00:14:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T00:14:24","slug":"british_columbia_apologizes_for_past_discriminatory_policies_towards_chines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44103","title":{"rendered":"British Columbia apologizes for past discriminatory policies towards Chinese Canadians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Province of British Columbia formally apologized to Chinese Canadians Thursday for historical wrongs and racism dating back to Confederation.<\/p>\n<p>Premier Christy Clark read the apology into the legislature, which was supported by the Opposition NDP and other MLAs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn behalf of the Province of British Columbia, and on behalf of the entire legislative assembly, we sincerely apologize for the provincial government\u2019s historical wrongs,\u201d\u009d said Clark.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are sorry for the discriminatory legislation and racist policies enacted by past provincial governments. We will ensure that this never happens again.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/news\/metro\/apologizes+past+discriminatory+policies+towards+Chinese\/9842654\/story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Province of British Columbia formally apologized to Chinese Canadians Thursday for historical wrongs and racism dating back to Confederation. Premier Christy Clark read the apology into the legislature, which was supported by the Opposition NDP and other MLAs. \u201cOn<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44103\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,175,201,207,502,168,133,177,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-asia","category-canada","category-china","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-pastoral-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}