The laissez faire approach to immigration that Canada had inherited over its lifetime began to fade away in 1884. British Columbia had become very concerned with the number of single male Chinese that had emigrated to the province since the 1860's when the American gold fields dried up. Thus, the provincial government took political action over the next year to finally impose a head tax of $50, on each Chinese immigrant who flocked to the region. In addition, Clifford Sifton, "a struggling young lawyer from Winnipeg and the youngest member of the Cabinet of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, was obsessed by a dream of promoting Canada's prosperity by developing the prairies with pioneer farmers". Sifton's plans when unveiled were daring, unorthodox, and in many ways ruthless. He had a vision of the ideal farmer for the Canadian prairies and he thought, "that a stalwart peasant in a sheepskin coat, born on the soil, whose forebears have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a half dozen children, is good quality". But, not everyone in Canada was as quick to welcome the Ukrainian newcomers in sheepskin coats as Sifton was. So, to add to the cris

The continuing fear of Chinese immigrants continued on through many decades of Canadian history. There was an increasing fear of the "yellow peril" amongst Canadians in around the 1900's, and thus "British Columbia was still concerned about the number of Chinese entering the province and the result was a doubling of the head tax to $100 in 1900, and a further increase to $500 three years later". This stiff increase in the head tax on the Chinese, which was no doubt a race discriminating act, affected not only the Chinese but the Japanese as well. This was because if Canada had the opportunity the federal government "would have liked to have imposed the same head tax on the Japanese, but was prevented from doing so for diplomatic reasons". The Chinese were the main race to fall at the hands of the racially discriminant Canadian immigration policy. In fact, the Chinese were usually the first people sent in to use dynamite to blow up paths for the railroad, and killed more often than not doing so. But, another big factor in those times was the national belief that the Chinese were a threat to the country and were going to attempt to invade Canada eventually. One local paper went as far as to say, "No one know when the hour will strike, which will give the signal for an oriental advance nor can anyone tell in what direction that will be". This belief was the also the early foreshadowing of the future concentration camp internment that the Chinese experienced during the World Wars for the same fear. Through those evasive settlement taxes and social degradation, it was clearly seen, there was undoubted racial discrimination practices enacted by the Federal government of Canada.

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