“At no time did the RCMP or the military recommend the forced removal of Japanese Canadians as a measure necessary to ensure the defence or security of Canada. However, on February 24, 1942, under Order in Council P.C.1486, the Government of Canada used the War Measures Act to order the removal of all Japanese Canadians residing within 160 kilometres of the Pacific coast. Some 20,000 persons of Japanese ancestry (74% of whom were Canadians by birth or naturalization) were sent to civilian and Prisoner of War internment camps, road camps and sugar beet farms in the interior of British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario.”
“Between May and December 1946, 3,964 Japanese Canadians (66% of whom were Canadians by birth or naturalization) were deported to Japan. They were the most vulnerable members of the community. ”