When did the Government of Canada apologize for the 'Head Tax' against Chinese workers?

Discover Canada records this in one direct sentence inside its Canadian Pacific Railway passage. The guide writes: The project was financed by British and American investors and built by both European and Chinese labour. Afterwards the Chinese were subject to discrimination, including the Head Tax, a race-based entry fee. The Government of Canada apologized in 2006 for this discriminatory policy. The year the test wants is therefore 2006.

The policy itself is described in the same passage. The Head Tax was, in Discover Canada's words, "a race-based entry fee" imposed on Chinese workers after they had helped build the country's first transcontinental railway. The injustice the apology addresses is therefore not abstract — Chinese workers built part of the CPR, and the country they helped link with "ribbons of steel" then taxed them at the door because of their race.

The apology came over a hundred years after the railway itself was finished. Discover Canada records that the CPR's last spike was driven on November 7, 1885 — and the apology only in 2006. So the 2006 date marks Canada formally taking responsibility for a policy that had begun more than a century earlier.

The Head Tax apology is one of two named federal apologies in Discover Canada's history chapter. The other is the apology in 1988 to Japanese Canadians for the wartime forcible relocation. Together, the two apologies (1988 and 2006) define the guide's account of Canada acknowledging historical discrimination against specific Asian-Canadian communities.

The question is testing whether new citizens have remembered Discover Canada's exact year for this apology. The guide commits to 2006, and pairs the apology directly with the policy it addresses — "the Head Tax, a race-based entry fee."

The other answer choices each test a near-miss — earlier and later years that Discover Canada never connects with the Head Tax apology. The guide uses no other year for that apology — only 2006.