Reader\'s Digest Canada - 05.2020

that you had to offer, for the laws that
discriminated against you so sense-
lessly, and for not apologizing sooner.
For all these things, we are truly sorry.”
Trudeau didn’t mention more recent
history, including the government’s
lengthy detention of over 500 Tamil
asylum seekers fleeing war and perse-
cution in Sri Lanka, who landed in
Vancouver on two ships between
October 2009 and August 2010 and
were detained for months.
Canada continues to discuss poten-
tial reforms to the Safe Third Country
Agreement and is doing so as Black
people are those most likely to cross
over from the U.S. The Globe and Mail
reported in 2018 on the progress of
negotiations: “As the Liberals iron out
their approach to STCA talks with the

U.S., they are touting their efforts to

prevent more asylum seekers from

crossing into Canada. For instance,

Mr. Hussen said many of those cross-

ing into Quebec earlier this year were

Nigerians carrying valid U.S. visitor

visas. Canadian officials raised the

issue with their U.S. counterparts, and

the number of U.S. visas issued to

Nigerians dropped.”

Canada knows its efforts to restrict

Black immigration to the U.S., and by

extension to Canada, are good for bar-

gaining. We may not have invented

this global game of restricting Black

people’s movements, but we know

how to play.

Money Talks

Billionaires who worry that middle-class wages aren’t growing

enough don’t come along every day.

JEFF RUBIN FROM THE EXPENDABLES

I did things for the excitement, for the dare, the fact that it was new,

not for the money. And too many times I was the first, not the beneficiary.

GRACE JONES, MUSICIAN

Xenophobic populism could well triumph at the ballot box and initiate changes

that will destroy the global, hypercapitalist digital economy.

THOMAS PIKETTY, ECONOMIST

Money is always there, but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets

after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.

GERTRUDE STEIN, AUTHOR

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