By Michael Harris, December 7th, 2014
… And then there is the law whose name was so bad it sparked an international incident and had to be changed. That’s right. The Black April Day Act created April 30 as the day to commemorate the diaspora of Vietnamese citizens after Saigon fell to the Viet Cong in 1975. Thousands of those refugees from South Vietnam came to Canada.
There is only one problem with dissing Vietnam with the Black April Day Act. That country is now an important trading partner and a key ally in the Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations…