本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛哈帕的移民政策: 亚裔入侵和亚裔贫民窟
今年通过的保守党提交的C-50移民修正法案备受争议, 修正后的移民法使移民部长大权在握, 有权限制或减少已经由国会通过的移民配额人数, 有权打破时间顺序, 优先考虑甄选部分申请者。 同时, 对不同国家设置移民限额(QUOTA)等。 保守党称这个法案可以有助于快速有效地清除积案云云。 但广大加国华人不禁会问, 把如此重要大权, 交给劣迹斑斑的哈帕保守党, 大家放不放心呢?
Asian invade 与 University of billion chinks
2000年临冬, 选战正浓, 为保守党前身的加人联盟党有一个候选人名叫背缇格兰葛(Betty Granger), 背缇跑到温尼伯大学演讲拉选票, 演讲中竟指亚裔在温哥华唯多利亚上大学念书, 买楼买地为“亚洲入侵”(Asian invade), 这些人不是我们要招进这个国家的最好客人。 背缇这段话是这样说的:
"Have you been to the West Coast? Oh about five years ago I was out there actually on school trustee business and found myself staying with friends that live there. I call it the Asian invasion, but that might not be the best wording, but nevertheless, the Asian students that have come over to Canada pressured the university system. Our own Canadian students actually could not even get into some of our university programs in Vancouver and Victoria. The land prices, apparently they're buying up blocks and blocks -- a well-monied population buying up blocks and blocks of real estate, building ... like there's a whole economy that (U of W political science department chair) Alan (Mills) was referring to that could occur in Manitoba that is occurring there...We've actually interred some Asian peoples for a year before they were sent back to their homes. I think that problem has been addressed to some degree, but this is problematic not only for immigration, but also for justice issues because there was a realization that what was coming off these boats was not the best clientele you would want to come into this country.”
当时为电视直播, 引来轩然大波。 事后, 背缇为她种族歧视的言论道歉, 但是她却并没有退出大选。 最后, 背缇仅获该选区8%的选票败选。 加国称之为“亚裔入侵事件”。 又是象Betty Granger这样的西部右翼份子, 蔑称有许多华人子弟上学的卑斯大学(UBC)正变成一所"University of a Billion Chinks"。
2002年, 哈帕在两次评论“亚裔入侵事件”时候都不但没有谴责Betty Granger, 反而反咬一口, 称她是“低级层次的麦卡锡主义的牺牲品”。 他在电视上是这么说的: “Betty Granger is party president in the Winnipeg area and one of a large number of party presidents that are supporting this campaign. So, I think this kind of thing is just kind of a low-level form of McCarthyism.” (CTV ”Question Period”, February 10, 2002)。
其实, 现在我们再回过头看, 哈帕挺背就一点不奇怪了。
Asian ghettoes 与 NCC
2001年, 记者Kevin Michael Grace问哈帕怎么自由党会在温尼伯以西地区能赢得14个席位, 都是谁投他们票, 他们为什么投自由党? 哈帕说: 因为那里亚裔移民和东加来的移民占多数, 那些住贫民窟和不为西加社会容纳的群体。 他的原话是这样说的:
‘West of Winnipeg, the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from Eastern Canada; people who live in ghettos and are not integrated into Western Canadian society.’
事实上, 哈帕背缇并没有脱离保守党的移民路线, 哈帕对亚洲移民充满种族主义的思维, 主要来源一个叫 National Citizens Coalition (NCC), 哈帕曾在98-02年间担任该组织的主席。 该组织是在六十年代末由一个叫Colin M. Brown的安省南部富翁建立, 以反对加政府的公共医疗政策。 该组织歧视黑人和妇女, 大亨到美国南部度假的富豪俱乐部至今仍然是禁止黑人和妇女进入的。 七十年代又以反亚裔移民而臭名昭著, 反对亚裔移民的加拿大著名记者 Diane Francis 是NCC的常客贵客。
90年代, 哈帕对NCC十分信服, 他曾称“NCC的日程是对我的一个指引...(the agenda of the NCC was a guide to me)。 NCC主席David Somerville回应称 改革党(Reform Party, 哈帕当时领导的党)剽窃了我们的政策书可能有三分之二(“cribbed probably two-thirds of our policy book.”)。
1997年, 哈帕宣布放弃议员身份, 去接手NCC。 他称自己是NCC的长期支持者。 1998-2002年, 哈帕当了四年NCC主席。 2002年, 哈帕离开NCC去竞选加人联盟党主席, 他解释这样做的原因是因为害怕国会里没有NCC的声音。 他是如是说的: “feared that if I did not do this, the NCC would find itself again alone or at least without any allies in the Parliament of Canada.” 的确, 如果我们看保守党对公共医疗, 社会福利等政策, 基本上就是NCC主张的那一套。
NCC和华人的第一次交手是79-80年NCC一手策划的“反击越南船民入侵案”, 试图阻止因越南排华而出走该国的越南华侨留在加国。 那你是不是以为他们仅仅不希望加国接收太多难民呢? 看官你又错了, 因为他们对50年代的匈牙利难民潮的态度却截然不同。 NCC的创始人Colin M. Brown的讲话正好为他们的移民政策作了最好的注脚和为哈帕的贫民窟说法找到根源: “I think the Hungarians have made marvelous citizens,” Brown declared, “but the bloodlines run the same way. We all come from Europe so they fit in. You wouldn’t know if the people next door to you are Hungarian or not. They don’t all go and gather in a ghetto.” (大意是匈牙利人能成为很好的公民, 我们有相同的血缘, 都来自欧洲, 他们不都聚集和居住在贫民窟)。
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