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I'm not sure why this book isn't read alongside Anne Frank in school, particularly in Canadian education. I didn't know the extent of Canadian interment camps for those who were Japanese/those born in Canada that have Japanese heritage. The atrocities committed during World War II and after it in Canada, is abhorrent.
At the end of the book, there's an excerpt from the Memorandum sent by the Co-operative Committee of Japanese Canadians to the House and the Senate of Canada that says:
"The orders are directly in contradiction of the language and spirit of the United Nations Charter, subscribed to by Canada as well as the other nations if the world and are an adoption of the methods of Nazism.".
When you read this book, and you should, you will agree with that point to no end. Canada is not a blameless country, as we well know, and it shows in the way it continues to try and veil this human rights violation from our schools and history books and common knowledge.
At the end of the book, there's an excerpt from the Memorandum sent by the Co-operative Committee of Japanese Canadians to the House and the Senate of Canada that says:
"The orders are directly in contradiction of the language and spirit of the United Nations Charter, subscribed to by Canada as well as the other nations if the world and are an adoption of the methods of Nazism.".
When you read this book, and you should, you will agree with that point to no end. Canada is not a blameless country, as we well know, and it shows in the way it continues to try and veil this human rights violation from our schools and history books and common knowledge.
