Politicians who are raising the spectre of fear around immigrants today evoke the discrimination that immigrants have faced over the course of Canada's history.
Upcoming article and research in partnership with Landscapes of Injustice reveals that the City of Vancouver was more involved in the forced sale of Japanese-Canadian property during Second World War.
In 1942 the entire Japanese population of Vancouver was forcibly removed to internment camps. The City government of the day urged on the removal of the Japanese "enemy alien population."