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(Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper reacts after delivering a public apology to Chinese Canadian head tax payers in the House of Commons 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)