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The Exile of Japanese Canadians
After the Second World War, Canada proposed exiling more than 10,000 Canadians of Japanese descent to Japan. The plan raised fundamental questions of constitutional law and politics: could citizens be expelled based on race under the guise of wartime powers? Unfolding amid global insecurity, tightened borders and racist suspicion, the exile of Japanese Canadians remains a vital history to confront today.