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The Canadian parliament has yet to make history by formally apologizing for the Komagata Maru episode. The vessel full of Indian passengers was turned away from the Vancouver coastline in 1914 under the discriminatory Continuous Journey Law, which was passed to discourage Indian immigrants from entering Canada. It was a Conservative government that forced the Komagata Maru ship to leave after remaining stranded for two months in Burrard Inlet following its arrival May 23, 1914 with 376 passengers aboard.Ironically, the secretary of state for multiculturalism in the present Conservative government, Jason Kenney, visited Surrey this past weekend to announce that his government intends to apologize for that incident. When and where, he did not say. While the Conservatives have yet to pick a date to apologize, it does credit the Tory government that its Pri...

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