Redressing Injustice
After 46 years, Japanese Canadians were finally compensated by Ottawa. A participant tells the story of the secret negotiations March 2005
“Pack a clean white shirt,” [National Association of Japanese Canadians] President Art Miki told me over the phone on August 23, 1988. The NAJC’s Strategy Committee had been summoned to a meeting with the latest multiculturalism minister, Gerry Weiner. “That’s what I was told by the government contact,” he said. We had often imagined—and even joked about—receiving this call from Weiner’s…