Internment of Japanese Canadians

Canada, September 22, 1988: Brian Mulroney's apology and redress agreement Six weeks after the American law, Prime Minister Mulroney formally apologized in the House of Commons for the wartime uprooting of some 23,000 Japanese Canadians from their homes. What made it stick was that it was negotiated, not handed down: the National Association of Japanese Canadians had set out its case in a 1984 brief, Democracy Betrayed, and signed the agreement itself. Each person directly affected was offered $21,000, alongside a community fund and $24 million toward what is now the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, so part of the redress was built to outlive the survivors.