David Cohen’s Blog: Plan B for Hong Kongers – Immigrate to Canada

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Published: December 1, 2004

For a brief time in the mid 1980's I resided in that jewel of a city, Hong Kong. The Sino-British Joint Declaration had just been signed, meaning that Hong Kong would revert to the control of China in 1997. Brits being Brits, they at the same time let it be known that henceforth most holders of British Hong Kong passports would not be permitted to reside in the U.K. There was a palpable sense of angst in the air as the city's five million inhabitants weighed their options.

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