The Chinese Immigration Act of 1885

The Chinese Immigration act made it that Chinese people who wanted to come to Canada had to pay a $50.00 fee to come into the country.  Later in 1900 the fee was raised to a hundred dollars. This was a lot of money back then because people didn’t have as much money as they do today. Three years after this in 1903 the fee was raised to $500.00. Later after all this another law was put in place that only one Chinese immigrant could come per very fifty tons. This meant that only ten people could come on a ship that weighed 500 ton tons and that made it very difficult to come from China to Canada. This goes against the charter because there is a right that says that everyone has the right to enter and leave Canada. This probably could happen today because there are lots of people who don't want people to come into Canada and they might raise a fee for immigrants. Later on in 1923 this law was superseded by the Chinese Immigration act of 1923.