Many of us have heard about and noted in our classes about the detention of Japanese Americans on the West Coast starting after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Of the 120,000 so detained, two-thirds of them were citizens; most had their property taken without compensation and got nothing back after the war. What I had not heard of before was that Canada did the same thing. A Canadian environmentalist and broadcaster-David Suzuki-notes that "there were 22,000 Japanese Canadians put in camps". More research is needed.
(Source: "A Progressive Interview With David Suzuki" by Mathew Rothschild. The Progessive Dec 2010 Jan 2011).
