The Hong Kong Chinese Community
Beginning of paper
is an affluent, educated, and
swelling population in the Greater Toronto Area. The enigma is why they
have only made marginal inroads into the political arena.
Olivia Chow, a Metro councilor representing the Downtown ward says
"this community has potential to be very powerful...it's nowhere near ....
Middle of paper
.... People have lost a lot of confidence in politicians because of poor
examples provided by ongoing tensions between Communist China and
nationalist Taiwan. "We have to educate them and tell them politics in
North America and Canada is very different from what they saw of politics
in Hong Kong and China."
Dr. Joseph Wong, whose community activism has earned him the Order
of Canada, thinks that despite changes in Chinese attitudes, fear is still
an obstacle towards political evol ....
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