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Japanese Internment of WW2

“They spoke of the Japanese Canadians,” Escott Reid, a special assistant at External Affairs, would recall, “in the way that the Nazi’s would have spoken about Jewish Germans.” Just like in that statement, I intend to expose you to the ways that the Japanese were wronged by Canadians throughout the Second World War. As well, I intend to prove what I have stated in my thesis statement: After the bombing of Pearl Harbour, the Japanese in Canada were wronged by being torn from their homes to be put into internment camps to serve Canadians through hard labour.

The Decision to Uproot Japanese Canadians
Within hours of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbour, the federal Cabinet declared war on Japan. The federal cabinet supported their decision by calling Japan’s attack “a threat to the defence and freedom of Canada.
The Japanese Canadians in Canada were devastated by Japan’s attack on Pearl......

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