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BRITISH COLUMBIA: Migrants get welcome party at base



Monday, August 23, 1999

VICTORIA -- In a colourful show of support, about 100 people decorated a chain-link fence with welcome signs around the gymnasium at Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt, where Chinese migrants are being detained. The "welcome party" went on Saturday night outside the fence while RCMP and military personnel looked on.

"We are here to show these people that Victorians aren't all racists," said Shane Caulder. "It's ludicrous to think these people are a threat to us."

Organizers were not allowed to give migrants gifts of food and clothing. But they conveyed messages through a Mandarin interpreter using a megaphone.

Amid cheers and applause, a steady stream of migrants dressed in white jumpsuits paraded to outside port-a-potties. Several waved, one yelled and another said "thank you" before being escorted back inside the gymnasium. CP



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