Reply to "Everything is offensive: Here are Canada’s other politically incorrect place names"

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Chateau Laurier (Ottawa, Ont.)
Wilfrid Laurier famously said that in the ethnic mix of Canada “there is no longer any family here but the human family.” But he was remarkably selective about who got to join that family. He opposed Indo-Canadian immigration to Canada, reasoning that they couldn’t handle the cold. Laurier also raised the Chinese Head Tax and saw it as a righteous thing for Canada to settle land taken from “savage nations.”

Ottawa’s Chateau Laurier. Jean Levac

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