Redress Express: Chinese Restaurants and the Head Tax Issue in Canadian Art (Deliberations on a Preliminary Course)

Abstract

Last summer I came across a most remarkable prefixed rubric via Canada's national newspaper The Globe and Mail. All aboard the Redress Express, the headliner read. 2 The media had coined this name for the cross-country train ride to Ottawa by Chinese head tax payers and their families to hear Prime Minister Stephen Harper deliver a long overdue apology on June 22, 2006.