Arthur and Gavin were warmly welcomed by the Canadian government, and Gavin finally got on the dog sled he had been dreaming of, and learned to skate on the Rideau Canal in the heart of the city.

In winter, the Rideau Canal enters a frozen period, becoming the world's largest natural ice field.

Otherwise, ice hockey and curling in Canada are as developed as they are, and they are also natural advantages.

To Arthur and Gavin's surprise, there were still Chinese Americans in Ottawa.

Year 1788. The British renegade captain James Meares hired about 70 Chinese from Macau and settled them on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, which was then a European outpost on the Pacific coast, which is the earliest record of Chinese in Canada.

Unfortunately, documents and information about the whereabouts and possible descendants of this group of early Chinese have not been left and are now nowhere to be found.

In 1858, a group of formal immigrants came to Canada as laborers, and after the gold rush and the construction of the Pacific Railroad (Canadian Pacific Railway), more and more Chinese came to settle in Canada.

However, the situation of Chinese Canadians is not good, and the passage of the Chinese Immigration Act in 1885 authorized the Canadian government to start collecting a poll tax from Chinese immigrants to Canada, making the Chinese the only minority who are forced to pay the tax.

Now the Canadian government is considering a bill that would completely ban Chinese immigration, and once passed, the Chinese will become the only ethnic group in Canada that is completely rejected.

The Chinese Exclusion Act in the United States only restricts the importation of Chinese immigrants.

Canada this-

hmm——

If Roque had known, he would probably have reconsidered whether to send troops to help Canada deal with American pressure.

Arthur and Gavin were visiting the Chinese ghetto in Ottawa when they learned the news.

In Europe and the United States, the Chinese ghetto is also known as Chinatown, Ottawa's Chinatown is built in a garbage dump on the outskirts of Ottawa, the health and security situation is very bad, full of garbage, sewage overflowing, there is not even a decent road, these Chinese live in dilapidated houses, some windows are not even installed with glass, but are covered with wooden boards, not necessarily for economic reasons.

If you install glass, it can be smashed, and most of the police in Ottawa are not responsible for the security of Chinatown.

Arthur and Gavin witnessed a robbery in Chinatown, an American robbed a Chinese lady of the food she had just bought, and the Ottawa police responsible for protecting Arthur and Gavin turned a blind eye and were indifferent, or Arthur and Gavin's bodyguards helped the Chinese lady recover the robbed food.

"Ottawa is the seat of self-government in Canada, how could this happen in broad daylight?" Arthur was blunt, expressing his displeasure directly to the Canadian government officials who accompanied him.

Pete Valentine looked embarrassed, he was a liaison officer sent by the Canadian Home Rule Government to be responsible for the security and liaison of Arthur and Gavin during their stay in Canada.

Pitt's official position is Second Secretary in the Prime Minister's Office.

"This is normal in Canada, who makes the Chinese the only ethnic group in Canada forced to pay the poll tax, the Chinese in Canada can only live in the harsh environment of Chinatown, can not buy houses in the community outside Chinatown, Chinese shops or factories, can not hire white jobs, their wives and children can not even immigrate, forced to be separated from their families for a long time, during the world war, Chinese Americans received less than half of the other ethnic groups." Wei Xing, the military attache of the Southern African Embassy in Ottawa, sneered, and as a Chinese American, Wei Xing was very dissatisfied with the living conditions of the Chinese in Ottawa and had submitted a report to the federal government of Southern Africa.

After the establishment of the Commonwealth, Southern Africa was eligible to send embassies and consulates to other countries, and it was not yet a formal diplomatic relationship, presumably similar to an institution such as a liaison office.

It is precisely because of the reports of these expatriate officials that the federal government of southern Africa has learned about the living conditions of ethnic Chinese in various parts of the world, and the federal government of southern Africa has begun to solve this problem because it did not have enough influence to help ethnic Chinese around the world.

"Help me contact Mr. Arthur Mean—" Arthur went directly to the current Prime Minister of Canada.

"Mr. Arthur Mehn is in London now—" Pete looked embarrassed, the Imperial Conference was being convened in London, and it was Speaker Buck who represented Southern Africa in the Imperial Conference.

"Then help me contact His Excellency the Governor." Arthur perfectly inherited Roque's deep connections, and the current governor of Canada is Julian Bean, who was under Roque's command as commander-in-chief of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the World War.

"Okay." Pete was convinced, looking at the connections of others, he was the prime minister and the governor at every turn, and this starting point was really more popular than people.

As a result, the governor did not see him, and in the evening Arthur and Gavin met with former Prime Minister Bowden first.

Well, this is Roque's friend again, Roque and Bowden had a good relationship during the naval meeting, and now that Roque's children are traveling around the world, Bowden should be a landowner.

"Honorable Mr. Gavin Locke, Lord Cyprus, welcome to Ottawa." Bowden prepared a sumptuous dinner for Arthur and Gavin at his own home, attended only by Arthur and Gavin, as well as Bowden's family.

"Uncle Bowdoin, just call me Arthur, and when we came, my father asked us to convey his greetings to you, and to wish you good health." Arthur was courteous and prepared a gift of medicinal liquor produced by the Johannesburg Pharmaceutical Group.

The medicinal liquor produced in Johannesburg is carefully brewed with more than 20 kinds of precious Chinese medicinal materials, tiger bone ginseng and everything, no matter what the effect is, just make up for it.

"Thank you, and please convey my greetings to your father for me, the time spent with your father at the Navy meeting will be the best memory in my memory." Bowden was very enthusiastic, looking at young Arthur and Gavin, and his heart was also mixed.

In 1914, Bowden was knighted and officially joined the aristocracy.

In the same year, Arthur, a minor secondary school student, was knighted a baron of Cyprus, two levels above Bowdoin, who was already sixty years old in 1914.

You say it's not annoying!

Also attending the dinner were Bowdoin's two granddaughters, about the same age as Arthur Gavin, and I don't know if it was a coincidence or something else.

However, Arthur's attention was clearly not on the two girls, and after a sumptuous dinner, Arthur and Gavin followed Bowden to the study and immediately raised the question of Chinese Ottawa.

"Uncle Bowdoin, Gavin and I visited Ottawa Chinatown in the afternoon, and to be honest, I was very disappointed, and if my father knew about the situation of Chinese people in Ottawa, he would be very disappointed." Arthur really didn't mean to bully, just make reasonable use of all favorable factors, if there was no relationship with Roque, if there was no knighthood blessing, to put it mildly, Arthur and Gavin would not be qualified to be guests at Bowdoin's house.

This society is so realistic, the truth is only within the range of naval guns, you are weak and you deserve it.

"I'm sorry Arthur, I also just learned about the situation in Chinatown, and to be honest, if it weren't for you, I wouldn't have been aware of the problem at all." Bowden admitted that Ottawa has a population of more than 100,000, and there are only more than 100 Chinese, and the number is indeed a little smaller, and it is normal for them not to be concerned.

But this reason certainly doesn't make sense for Arthur and Gavin.

As the former prime minister, Bowden should be responsible to all Canadians, and Chinese Canadians are also Canadians, even if there is only one, as the prime minister, he should be fair and just.

"So now that this problem has arisen, I think we should improve the health and security environment in Chinatown, and remove all kinds of restrictions on Chinese Americans, so that Chinese Americans can get the same social status as white people, not preferential, but not exclusive, just a fairness." Arthur is not demanding, but it is this "fairness" that the vast majority of countries in the world cannot do.

"Arthur, I understand your feelings, but the situation in Canada is different, and most of the time, we have to ensure the interests of the majority." Bowden smiled bitterly, if things in the world could be explained clearly in just a few words, then many contradictions would not have happened.

In Canada, not only Chinese Americans, but other ethnic groups sometimes face injustice.

For example, after the outbreak of the World War, Prime Minister Arthur Meen, then Minister of Home Affairs in Bowdoin's cabinet, worked to get Parliament to pass a wartime election law that would disenfranchise Canadians of German and Austrian origin who had become citizens of Canada in 1902.

Prior to the enactment of the Military Service Act in 1917, Arthur Meen referred to Quebecers who opposed conscription as a "backward nation."

It is also discrimination against red fruits.

Germans and Austrian-Canadians are still white, and even whites are discriminated against in Canada, not to mention the smaller and marginalized Chinese.

That is, Arthur and Gavin are in a special position, otherwise Bowden would not have discussed this issue at all.

"Uncle Bowdoin, Canada is now facing the threat of the United States, my father is ready to send reinforcements to Canada, the Southern African Army, most of the soldiers are of Chinese descent, if those soldiers come to Canada and find that their ethnicity is discriminated against and excluded in Canada, the consequences are unimaginable." Arthur doesn't beat around the bush, this matter is difficult to say, it is easy to solve it, it is easy to solve, more than 100 people, if the Canadian self-government really wants to solve it, it can be directly supplied in another place.

The point is that if you really do this, it will lead to other more serious problems, and it will be even more difficult to deal with when the time comes.

"I know, I'm going to remind Arthur to pay attention to this—" Bowdoin's face was heavy, and he didn't dare to make any promises: "But you have to know that the most fierce attitude towards Chinese Americans is the leader of the Liberal Party, William Leon Mackenzie King, who is very likely to become the next Prime Minister of Canada." ”

William Leon Mackenzie King, known as the greatest prime minister in Canadian history.

It was also during the premiership of William Leon Mackenzie King that the Canadian government passed a bill that completely banned Chinese immigration.