Day 3: A day with Tammy's father! :D

July 3, 2011


Gonna spend a day with Tammy's dad, Kelvin :)
He was a politician, and I'm really interested about politic, so he explains a lots to me! :)

These are the famous Politician in BC!

Charles Cecil Ingersoll Merritt	David Barrett	Dawn Black
10 November 1908 - 12 July 2000	Born October 2, 1930 in Vancouver, BC	Born April 1, 1943
A Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross  and Member of Parliament	A retired politician and social worker in BC	A politician in BC, became an assistant to New Democratic Party Member of Parliament Pauline Jewett
He was commissioned into the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada (a Militia regiment) in 1929 but read for the Bar and practiced law in Vancouver until mobilized at the outbreak of World War II.	He was the26th Premier of British Columbia for three years between 1972 and 1975, the only Jewish premier in the province’s history.	Proposed a private members bill that made December 6, the anniversary of the Montreal Massacre, a permanent day of remembrance and action against violence against women.

 
Also, he cares a lots of Canada's problems, he tells me that, Canada's health care has an "economics" problem.

The current health system does not have a “management” problem; it has an “economics” problem. The looming crisis in the Canadian health system has three identifiable causes: the government’s monopoly over funding for medical care, the politically planned allocation of medical goods and services, and the lack of consumer exposure to the cost of using health care.

He also tells me about a gambling problem in BC, "Increasing Rate of Underage Gambling in BC".

A recent report in Toronto Suns indicates that last year, some retailers sold lottery tickets to minors declaring that underage gambling in British Columbia had boost. The report also says that the BC's Government is not taking some step to stop this gambling problem on their province. That's why a Canadian news provider known as QMI took the first step.

 Kelvin also tells me about the push and pull factors experienced in BC.

The Pull Factors: 

Gold!

Gold was discovered along the Fraser River in British Columbia in 1858. Thousands of miners, including many Chinese who had been working in California, rushed into the region. Great Britain quickly created the colony of British Columbia on the mainland, with its capital city at New Westminster, to prevent American miners from claiming that the land belonged to the United States.
The need for labour in British Columbia led to many Chinese being hired to build roads, clear land and construct railways. They also worked in coal mines and fish canneries and on farms.

From China: The "Push" Factors 

Farmland Scarce

Most Chinese immigrants to Canada in the last half of the 19th century came from one small area near the southern port of Guangzhou, in China's Guangdong province. Of eight rural districts in that region, four had rich soil. In the other four districts, only 10 percent of the land was usable for growing food crops.
All eight districts were densely populated. Between 1780 and 1850, the population had jumped from 16 to 28 million people. Meanwhile, no new ways had been found to increase harvests in the region, so the land could not feed everyone.

(http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/canadiens-chinois/021022-1100-e.html)