Thrown into Canada | movie | 2022 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:07 Would you like to get all Asians out, really, sir?

00:10 Yes, they must go.

00:12 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:19 You get 8 billion Ugandans and maybe 80,000 Asians,

00:22 and those 80,000 own most of everything.

00:25 It's a recipe for disaster.

00:26 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:35 Suddenly, over the airwaves came this announcement

00:39 that President Idi Amin is issuing an edict

00:43 to expel all people of South Asian origin from Uganda,

00:48 and he was giving us all three months to leave.

00:51 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:57 In the 1970s, Britain was really wrestling

01:01 with its legacies of empire.

01:03 The empire was coming home, and the British government

01:06 was not prepared to deal with that.

01:08 [MUSIC PLAYING]

01:13 We get the famous statement from Trudeau

01:15 about an honorable place for these people

01:18 if they come to Canada.

01:19 [MUSIC PLAYING]

01:25 We had never had a chance to say goodbye to each other,

01:28 because people just left.

01:30 People left overnight.

01:31 [MUSIC PLAYING]

01:39 Canada was not meant to be the society that we see today,

01:42 the very multicultural society, but really, the aspiration

01:45 was to be a white settler society.

01:47 [MUSIC PLAYING]

01:54 In most instances, refugees make innumerable contributions

01:58 to the places they arrive in, because they're granted

02:01 a second chance at life.

02:03 [MUSIC PLAYING]

02:07 Many folks tell the story of when

02:10 someone visits the house of a Ugandan Asian refugee

02:13 in Canada, they see a giant painting of Idi Amin.

02:16 And they were asked, why would you put a picture of Idi Amin

02:20 on the wall?

02:21 He says, every day when I come downstairs

02:23 and I look at this photo, I thank him

02:25 for sending me to Canada.

02:26 [MUSIC PLAYING]

02:29 [MUSIC PLAYING]

02:33 [MUSIC PLAYING]

02:36 (upbeat music)

Thrown into Canada | movie | 2022 | Official Trailer

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