The views of mainstream Canadians were reflected by the formation in Toronto of the Ad Hoc Committee for Japanese Canadians Redress, a group advocating a negotiated settlement.

The Ad Hoc Committee worked to stir public awareness through a large advertisement on redress in the Globe and Mail, March 6, 1986, paid for through individual contributors whose names were printed at the bottom of the page.

You were born in Canada. Your parents were Canadian citizens. But that didn’t stop the government.

Family property was seized and sold for a fractions of its worth. Your father was assigned to forced labour. You and your mother were transported to flimsy tarpaper shacks in the middle of nowhere, and left to cope with -30 degree winters.

Because you were Canadian of Japanese decent, this would be your life for the next four years.

This, you discovered, was Canadian “democracy” at work.

Was It Necessary

Were these drastic measures implemented against some 22,000 men, women and children necessary for national security?

The RCMP produced strong evidence to the contrary, but were overruled by the government.

Two tragic years later, this same government would publically admit that no act of subversion by a single Japanese Canadian had ever been found before or during the war.

The Wrong Remains    

After the war they were left with little but the feeble utterances of succeeding governments and for 41 years nothing’s changed.

The present government proposes a unilateral quick fix in the name of “Multiculturalism” that does nothing to redress the real injustices suffered by these Canadians of Japanese ancestry.

It is time to right the wrong once and for all. Time, in the eyes of the world, to redress this long-standing failure of Canadian democracy itself.

What You Can Do

Join us in petitioning the Government of Canada to: (1) negotiate solely with the National Association of Japanese Canadians, the community’s elected voice for over 38 years, (2) formally acknowledge government wrongs during and after WW II, (3) establish a just formula for compensation, and (4) insure through appropriate legislation that no future government can similarly mistreat another minority.

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