Aristides

Ya, paper balloons they hoped would start forest fires and subs fired a few shots at coastal installations. Some threat.

Did the Brits put everyone of German and Italian origin in camps even though the Germans were 20 miles away bombing the crap out of them and preparing to invade? Germany almost won the Battle of the Atlantic which would have come close to winning them the war, or at least taking Britain and the US out of the European war. You ain't going to invade fortress Europe from Halifax or Manhattan. The Japanese navy may have been superior to the US for a short time but at no time were the Japanese ever a threat to invade the continental US. The Japanese were happy to kill NAZI's as well, the Nisei battalions were some of the highest decorated in the US army. Let's cut to the chase here guys. What you are really saying is given a choice between race and country, people will always choose race. https://www.hhhistory.com/2019/05/the-nisei-americas-442nd-wwii-battalion.html

What about the millions who died in German camps and were executed by einsatsgruppen? Germany was a far greater threat to Canada than Japan. U Boats wreaked havoc in the St. Laurence and they operated a clandestine weather station in northern Labrador.

So you are saying Japanese and Chinese can never be real Canadians regardless of how many generations removed. Sounds kind of racist.

The Japanese didn't get any closer to the west coast than the Aleutians.

Germany had all kinds of spies in England and eastern North America, we detain German Canadians except for the most suspect.

More like holding people accountable for their actions. There is a mechanism for contesting fines with a judge as arbiter if you choose to use it. If not, pay up.

I don't doubt it, everyone has spies. I just get a kick out of the idea the US navy would allow commercial fishing by foreign nationals inside one of their largest naval bases.

Gee, I didn't know there was such great fishing in Pearl Harbor and the navy would let you do it. LOL Learn something every day.

WTF are you talking about. Do you honestly think the perpetrators of this violence bother to ask their victims where they were born or even care? I know racism isn't an exclusively white thing. I spent a fair amount of time in Asia and experienced it myself, although it was more subtle.

It's been done for years with traffic fines, failure to pay child support etc. You have a limited amount of time to contest any fine, failure to do so is an admission of guilt. All you can do is contest the constitutionality of the law itself.

If he pulls that kind of crap on a crowded aircraft, I wouldn't want him there either.

He didn't differentiate. In their minds his words legitimize their actions.

Ya, like Canadian born citizens of Japanese descent were responsible for Pearl Harbor. I don't know where your ancestors came from but I guess you would be fine with getting beat up because of something that happened in that country.

In 1942 we confiscated the property of tens of thousands of Japanese Canadians and shipped them off to internment camps. Maybe we haven't changed that much after all.

Funny how people who deal in extremes are the first to call communist.

So what does that have to do with your Korean next door neighbour who gets beat up, spat on or sworn at?

Do you file taxes? Do you vote? Do you have a PAL to own a firearm? Do you have a regular passport?

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/reports-of-anti-asian-hate-crimes-are-surging-in-canada-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-1.5351481#:~:text=According to Project 1907%2C Canada has a higher,30 per cent of reported incidents are assault. VPD reports anti Asian hate crimes increased from 12 in 2019 to 98 in 2020.

What do you think your social insurance number is? Do you vote? You will be required to provide proof of vaccination to do certain things, get used to it. You will definitely need one for international travel. There has been an international certificate of vaccinations for many decades, issued by federal governments. They are the best way to do it without people falsifying their vaccination history.

The average person has no way of knowing if someone is Chinese, Japanese or Korean. I spent years there and find it difficult to tell unless I hear them speak their native language.

Ya, ignoring rules is always an intelligent strategy, guaranteed to succeed.

That's just not true. https://www.westerlynews.ca/news/lower-mainland-pharmacists-face-overwhelming-demand-for-astrazeneca-shots/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/strong-early-response-oxford-astrazeneca-rollout-metro-van-55-65s-1.5971514

Said no one ever. Except you just did.

We have a really effective vaccine that looks to have a very slight chance of a potentially serious side effect. THE HORROR.