Friday, February 12th, 2016
The Patrika
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NDP RENEWS CALL FOR KOMAGATA MARU APOLOGY IN HOUSE OF COMMONS
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DP Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Critic Jenny Kwan, MP for Vancouver East, is introducing a motion in Parliament to call on the Liberal government to honour their pre-election promise to the Indo-Canadian community to officially apologize for the Komagata Maru incident in the House of Commons. In 2002, the Professor Mohan Singh Memorial Foundation of Canada initiated a petition calling for a respectful apology from the Canadian government. Successive governments, including the Conservative governmons within the first 90 days of a ment refused to do. Liberal Government’s mandate. In 2014, attending Mela Gadri Babian “It’s now 2016, more than 100 days Da, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau into Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s made a pre-election commitment to mandate, and we are still waiting the community that he would make for the formal apology in the House a formal apology for the Komagata of Commons”, said Sahib Thind, Maru incident in the House of ComContinued on pg 43...
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