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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (3559)1/3/2008 11:49:42 AM
From: gg cox   of 42652
 
<<Canada passed a law that prohibited poor people from entering into their country for any reason.>>

Don't know how that got in there, but not accurate in any way.In the late 1800's CPR shoved the railway through BC's mountains on the backs of cheap Chinese and Japanese labour....<<gg>>

<<Between 1896 and 1914, some three million newcomers settled in Canada. Between 1901 and 1911, when the Canadian population rocketed by 43 percent, the percentage of foreign-born in the country as a whole exceeded 22 percent. Almost overnight, it seemed, immigration from Great Britain, the United States, Europe, and Asia had transformed the country, particularly Western Canada, into a polyglot society.>>

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