Paula Simons: Good, bad and ugly, let's remember Frank Oliver

Edmonton politician Frank Oliver was a racist. 
As federal minister of the interior in the early 20th century, he did everything he could to discourage non-British and non-white immigration. He loathed Ukrainians and other Eastern Europeans. Slavs, he said, were “millstones” hung around the necks of real Canadians. The Chinese, he said, lived “like pigs,” while the Japanese, he wrote “are not our people, they do not belong to our civilization, they do not stren