the youngsters couldn't care less.
Values of land will rise in Chinatown as they do in every area adjacent to squares, malls and parks and, as they do, the low-rentaH, near-slum district which has been such a colorful part of the city's past, will disappear―to be replaced by God knows what.
Let us hope that the city will keep a tight hand on commercial development which may follow.
Aid. A. W. Toone and his planning officials have recognized these potentialities and, at a recent meeting, decided to take a new, hard look at the city's urban renewal plan for that district. The city had decided, under the original plan, to renew a couple of buildings on lower Fisgard Street and build about a half-block of mall. This didn't look good enough in the light of possible developments so a study-in-depth was ordered for the whole district.
If Chinatown goes—and this is only an opinion after all~many a tear will be shed. However, it seems to mo that most of them will be occidental.
—Victoria Daily Colonist
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pronouncement of Prime Minister Pearson when he addressed a Brotherhood luncheon this year in these ringing words: "Our country has been built by men and women whose racial origins and religious convictions are as richly varied as our resources. Yet these differences, the basis of our strength and the source of our once unsurpassed traditions of tolerance and justice, are at times made the object of fear, suspicion and of discrimination. This we must end."
In granting amnesty the government is merely taking a long overdue step to correct a historic mistake, from which Oriental immigrants still suffer. Here is an opportunity then for Mr. Tremblay to demonstrate statesmanship in taking the immigration bull by the horn and giving our entry regulations a thorough overhauling with a view to removing all discriminatory features.
The Editors. CHINATOWN NEWS, SEPT. 3, 1964
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