... laws, which have discriminated against Orientals (Ward 459). It was this intolerance and xenophobia, which lead to the internment of both Japanese aliens and Canadian citizens alike. The pressure to intern the Japanese began years before war broke out between Canada and Japan. This pressure came from the British Columbia public out of an irrational fear of the unknown. It was ... would never have been interned (Ward 458). This point is best illustrated by King's continual delaying tactics and continual avoidance of the Japanese problem. It was never King's wish to intern the Japanese. H...

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... during the time period from 1942 (mid of the war) to 1947 (post war). From this point onward the general public began to constantly pressure the Canadian federal government to intern all Japanese-Canadians as anti-Japanese sentiment grew. The federal government opposed this, since neither the provincial govenerment nor the Mounties considered Japanese-Canadians a security risk and did not see ... the need to intern Japanese Canadians; however the federal government eventually craved in to the public pressure and began a series of events that ultimately would lead to the internment of Ja...

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... strong opinions of the Japanese. Many of these "racists"" did not associate with any Japanese after the bombings exiling them from their community. One man justified the government's decision to intern the Japanese saying, "everywhere that the Japanese have attacked to date, the Japanese population has risen to aid the attackers. What is there to make the government believe that the ... ...

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