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I made a short video this morning to mark the anniversary of AW Neill’s first speech in the Parliament of Canada. March 16, 1922. Neill was a white supremacist and especially hated Japanese immigrants. He was a cheerleader not only for exclusion of Asian immigration, but their forced deportation including after internment in WWII.
Sound familiar?

https://www.youtube.com/live/8BQhMdYRQUY

This morning I found an exchange between him and Prime Minister Mackenzie King. It was on a trade treaty with Belgium, but Neill turned it into a debate about immigration.
Sound familiar?

I mark this day because we still honour this white supremacist with the name of a street in #PortAlberni

The school board removed his name from a school a few years ago — he was also an Indian Agent in charge of Indian Residential Schools in our area — but multiple city councils have not had the courage to do the same with the street.

Here is his original speech : https://www.lipad.ca/full/permalink/620136/

And here is his debate with Mackenzie King : https://www.lipad.ca/full/1924/07/11/13/

#immigration #whitesupremacy #racism
cc: @dustindame