The Chinese Immigration Act of 1885 (Kayden)

This acted charged Chinese people a tax of $50 to move to Canada. Most of the Chinese earned less then $1.00 a day, and it would take a long to time to save up all that money. Then in 1903, they had to pay $500 to move to Canada, and no one else had to pay that, except for the Chinese people. Later another law was passed, that only one Chinese immigrant could come to Canada for every fifty tons of the ship they were traveling on. That meant that only 10 immigrants could come to Canada on a ship weighing five hundred tons. I don not think at all that this stuff would ever happen today, and this does go against the charter of rights and freedoms.