Mr. Speaker, I have the honour of presenting two petitions today. The first is signed by petitioners from my constituency of Burnaby-Kingsway as well as other communities in British Columbia.
It calls on Parliament to support an all-party parliamentary resolution to acknowledge the injustice and racial discrimination inherent in the Chinese head tax-it was imposed from 1885 to 1923-and also in the Chinese immigration exclusion act which prohibited Chinese immigration from 1923 to 1947.
It calls on Parliament to recognize and compensate for the suffering of individual Chinese Canadians and the entire Chinese Canadian community that resulted from this legislated discrimination.