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- Sunday, January 12, 1986 ~ North Shore News

Canadian gov't was motivated by racism

Dear Editor:

Re: Doug Collins’
remarks about the Japa-
nese-Canadian redress situa-
tion:

While I may agree that
atrocities is not the precise
word for the way Canadians
of Japanese descent were
treated between 1941 and
1949, there is no doubt in
my mind that their treatment
was a crime by government,
motivated by racism.

Such a motivation can be
inferred merely by consider-
ing the answer to the ques-
tion, were Candians of
German descent interned in
eastern Canada?

As an American who has
been a resident of Canada
for nineteen years, I did not
Jearn until about a year ago
that the Canadian gov-

ernment’s actions were far
worse than those in the U.S.

Japanese-Canadians were
forced to pay for their own
internment from the money
that the forced sale of their
property brought; and at the

Dear Editor:
' Thank you.

1 buy your newspaper on
the North Shore once a week
to get a rare breath of fresh
air and common sense that
you present with your col-
umnist Doug Collins.

I expect that you are
under considerable pressure
to muzzle him. I get the
sense that Mr. Speck is the
kind of man who won’t
knuckle under.

Jack Powell,
Vancouver

Dear Editor:

} would like to take this
opportunity to thank the
paramedics and West Van-
couver Police for their
prompt response to my
daughter's phone call for

emergency help when J had a
heart attack recently.

Their kindness and con-
sideration went far beyond
the call of duty.

J. Butterfield
West Vancouver

end of the war they were still
denied the vote and forbid-
den to live on the West
Coast until 1949.

I have not found Cana-
dians in general any more
knowledgeable on this mat-
ter than I was, and I wonder
how mamy of those soun-
ding off against the idea of
redress for Japa-
nese-Canadians realize that
fellow-citizens, many born in
this country, had taken away
from them fundamental
rights of suffrage and free
movement until four years
after the end of the war,
solely on the basis of their
national origin or heritage.

As for his sneers at Mr.

Art Miki, our supposedly
careful journalist has got nis
facts wrong.

A simple inquiry to a reli-
able source (Art Miki’s
brother, who lives in Van-
couver) yielded 1936, not
1950, as the year of Art
Miki’s birth. He and his
parents, all born in Canada,
and his grandfather, a natu-
ralized citizen, were
uprooted from their home in
B.C. and interned, and in
the post-war dispersal forced
to move to Manitoba.

Thus he has every reason
to have a personal beef. But
surely Mr. Miki is one of
those whose beefs are
altruistic as well as personal,

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who wish to see justice final-
ly done to all.
It would.seem that in this,

as in other contexts, the
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