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Written by THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Monday, 12 May 2008 |
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VICTORIA - The Canadian government is poised to issue a formal apology for an infamous incident involving hundreds of immigrants from India nearly a century ago, but the B.C. government will not be following suit.
Conservative MP Jason Kenney announced on the weekend that the federal government will deliver an official apology for the 1914 Komagata Maru incident, when 376 mostly Sikh immigrants were barred from landing in Vancouver and eventually ordered to sail away.
B.C.'s minister responsible for multiculturalism, Attorney General Wally Oppal, says the premier has already acknowledged that the incident was regrettable.
But Oppal says the formal apology that appears imminent from Ottawa will be made on behalf of all Canadians, and B.C. is not likely to issue its own formal amends.
On Monday, a motion in the provincial legislature supporting a formal apology from both the provincial and federal governments received support from both sides of the legislature but it was still adjourned, and not passed, by the legislature.
Surrey New Democrat Jagrup Brar says he's pleased his motion received such widespread support but he also says an apology shouldn't have taken 94 years.
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