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(AFP/File) - Canada has asked Germany to detain Iranian prosecutor Said Mortazavi, pictured in 2000, accused of involvement in the death of an Iranian-Canadian photographer, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said. Mortazavi is currently part of the Iranian delegation at a meeting of the new UN Human Rights Council(AFP/File/Behrouz Mehri)

(Reuters) - The Haskell Free Library and Opera House in Derby Line, Vermont is seen in this undated photograph. The 102-year-old Victorian brick building sits foursquare on the U.S.-Canadian border. You can enter from Vermont, but its back-door emergency exit is in Canada. REUTERS/Jason Szep (UNITED STATES)

(AP) - A fishing boat heads past an injured sperm whale off the coast of Dalvay, Prince Edward Island, Canada, on Thursday, June 22, 2006. Officials believe that the whale will likely die, and that it should just be left alone. (AP PHOTO/CP, Andrew Vaughan)

(Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper (R) greets former head tax payer James Pon during a ceremony in Ottawa June 22, 2006. Canada apologized formally on Thursday for a head tax it levied on Chinese immigrants about a century ago, describing it as a historic wrong and one of ‘the racist actions of our past.’ Harper delivered the apology in the House of Commons, in the presence of some elderly survivors of the tax, which Chinese workers had to pay before they could come to Canada. REUTERS/Dave Chan (CANADA)

(AP) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper greets a Chinese head tax survivor, below a painting of the Fathers of Confederation, during a ceremony acknowledging the government’s official apology in Ottawa, Thursday, June 22, 2006. The head tax was imposed on Chinese immigrants to Canada from 1885 to 1923 and was a considerable hardship at the time. (AP Photo/CP, Tom Hanson)

(AP) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper presents Ralph Lee and other Chinese ‘head tax’ survivors a copy of the government’s official apology in Ottawa, Thursday, June 22, 2006. More than a century ago, Canada forced tens of thousands of Chinese who helped build the nation’s railroads to pay a ‘head tax’ to stay in the country and bring in their families. The head tax, which started in 1885 at $50 and grew to $500 by 1903 _ then two years’ wages for Chinese laborers _ was collected from some 81,000 Chinese immigrants. Collections ended in 1923, when immigration from China was banned; Canada began admitting Chinese again in 1947. (AP Photo/CP, Tom Hanson)

(Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper (C, Back) poses for a group photo with former head tax payers during a ceremony in Ottawa June 22, 2006. Canada apologized formally on Thursday for a head tax it levied on Chinese immigrants about a century ago, describing it as a historic wrong and one of ‘the racist actions of our past.’ Harper delivered the apology in the House of Commons, in the presence of some elderly survivors of the tax, which Chinese workers had to pay before they could come to Canada. REUTERS/Dave Chan (CANADA)

(AP) - Heritage Minister Bev Oda addresses members of the Chinese community, Head Tax survivors and their families during a ceremony on Parliament Hill in Ottawa,Canada on Thursday, June 22, 2006. Prime Minister Harper apologized and offered compensation Thursday for what he called ‘a great injustice,’ the racist head tax once imposed on Chinese immigrants.(AP PHOTO/CP,Fred Chartrand)

(AP) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, left, poses for a photo with an unidentified Chinese head tax survivor, center, and her descendants, below a painting of the Fathers of Confederation during a ceremony acknowledging the government’s official apology for the tax in Ottawa Thursday, June 22, 2006. More than a century ago, Canada forced tens of thousands of Chinese who helped build the nation’s railroads to pay a ‘head tax’ to stay in the country and bring in their families. The head tax, which started in 1885 at $50 and grew to $500 by 1903 _ then two years’ wages for Chinese laborers _ was collected from some 81,000 Chinese immigrants. Collections ended in 1923, when immigration from China was banned; Canada began admitting Chinese again in 1947. (AP Photo/CP, Tom Hanson)