On 6/30/09 10:38 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
> No evidence in our lives that there ever was a war.
I know this was true for the vast majority of North Americans, but a most
shameful part of Canada's past - and America's, to a lesser extent - was the
treatment of families of Japanese origin on the west coast, in the wake of
the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Most of them were Canadian - or American -
citizens. Homes, possessions, fishing boats confiscated and sold off or left
to rot; incarcerated in remote camps; families separated; any rebellious
elements - mostly young men - sent off to separate and harsher camps. And no
restitution at the end of the war.
A formal apology was made in Parliament in 1988, and some compensation
provided. But what happened can't be erased.
Michael
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