A Notch Above the Nazis: An Embarrassing Footnote in Canadian History

Blazing Reader,

Today is Canada's 159th birthday, when I'm expected to wish my fellow Canucks a Happy Canada Day.

But, ever since 2020, I've become cynical when it comes to celebrating arbitrary boundaries set by a government that proved beyond doubt its ill intentions toward the people it governs.

Yet what the Canadian government did during the COVID years looks almost farcical in comparison to what was done to Japanese Canadian citizens in the 1940s.

In Much Ado About Corona, Constable Yamamoto explains to Vincent McKnight how the Canadian government confiscated his grandparents' property, herded them onto trains and forced them into detention centres during World War II — standards Yamamoto describes as only "a notch above the Nazis."

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John C. A. Manley is the author of Much Ado About Corona, All The Humans Are Sleeping and other works of philosophical fiction that are "so completely engaging that you find yourself alternately laughing, gasping, hanging on for dear life." Get free samples of his stories by becoming a Blazing Pine Cone email subscriber.