Having the Japanese in resettlement camps is our government’s way of making us white Canadians feel safe. I believe that this issue is mind over matter. Yes, you and I might feel safer with the Japanese people that live here away from you, but many of them are just as scared as the rest of us. I think monitoring them from a distance would suffice, instead of moving them away from their friends and possibly white family members.  

I fully understand that the government has the intention to keep us safe. But the children teenagers and innocent adult Japanese citizens of this country want and need to be safe as well. Our government needs to keep them in their homes and the places they feel the most comfortable. However scared we as white Canadians get, the Japanese are probably ten times more scared. Imagine your home country threatening war on the place you call home. The shame they must feel for something they can’t control is astronomical; and though we refer to them as Japanese people, many of them are Canadians like you and I. They deserve the same respect of their homes and families as much as any other Canadian in the country.    

Core competency

• I did ask and respond to questions to be an active and supportive listener. 

•    I worked with others to achieve a goal. 

• I now understand that my identity is made up of many interconnected elements of Japanese-Canadian internment.

•    I now understand what is important to me and I can explain my values.  

•   I now understand and can appreciate diverse perspectives on issues and can resolve problems effectively and responsibly. 

•   I did analyze evidence from the research I did and made judgements. 

•    I can now understand and tell, after examining the facts of the possible threat from Japanese-Canadians in Canada and the opinions of various people, the difference between fact and opinion.   

Curricular Competency

• I did assess, understood and explained the significance of the threat of the Japanese army and its treatment of people it conquered, in British Columbia, in my research handout and paragraph.            

• I did assess and explained the significance of Canadian treatment of Japanese-Canadians on Canada’s present day views of equality and status under the law in my research handout.  

• I did assess and explained the justification for different views of Japanese-Canadian internment in my research handout and paragraph. 

• I did analyze evidence from the research I did and made judgements. 

• I did assess and explained the changes the non-Japanese-Canadians went through in my research handout. 

• I made an ethical judgement about the action of internment the Japanese-Canadians in my paragraph.