Parliamentary apologies: the right thing to do

It's not about rewriting history, but it's determining that our history took certain wrong turns in the past and we are getting back on the right road from now on. It will be to the credit of the current Parliament.

The Harper government is about to issue an apology regarding the Komataga Maru incident, where almost 400 Indian immigrants were not allowed to land at the port of Vancouver in 1914, and after several weeks of appalling conditions in harbour the ship was turned back.

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