“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.” This was once said by the American writer Rita Mae Brown. People can always revisit something that happened in the past, but humans tend not to think twice about what they are doing in the present. Throughout history, people have gained hindsight through experience, so is it right to blame others without understanding their reasoning? Most people believe that the internment of Japanese Canadians was unjustified, but if they had been Anglo-Canadians during the Second World War, would they still have the same thoughts they have today? The internment of Japanese Canadians prevented violent discrimination by Canadian citizens, helped strengthen Canada as a nation, and also saved thousands of lives. Although many human rights were violated, Japanese internment benefited Canada over time. Japanese Canadians were discriminated against regardless of whether they were interned or not. Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, racism against Canadians of Japanese descent was nothing new. Japanese Canadians “had defined their communities since the arrival of the first immigrants in the 1870s.” An anti-Asiatic league was formed in Canada in 1807, it was the source of much of the hostility towards Japanese Canadians. The league was created to limit the amount of passports given out and prevent them from working in the sectors of British Columbia. Another group called the White Canada Association was "dedicated to combating the 'evils' of the Asian presence in British Columbia." During the 1935 federal election, both the Liberal and Conservative parties launched smear campaigns against the Commonwealth Co-operative Federation, now known as the New Democratic Party, condemning...... middle of paper......panese Canadians interned during the Second World War. Dalhousie University, 20-21.[4] Ann G. Sunahara, The Politics of Racism: The Eradication of Japanese Canadians During the Second World War (Toronto: James Lorimer & Co., 1981), 161.[5] Sunahara, 10[6] Fujiwara, Aya. “Japanese-Canadian Internally Displaced Persons: Labor Relations and Ethno-Religious Identity in Southern Alberta, 1942-1953. Page 65[7] http://www.japanesecanadianhistory.net/samples_secondary.htm[8] http://www.japanesecanadianhistory.net/timeline2/timeline2b.htm[9] http://www.history.com/topics /bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki[10] http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB162/72.pdf[11] http://www.deathcamps.info/[12] http ://www.stripes.com/military-life/taiwan-horrors-of-japanese-pow-camps-revealed-to-visitors-at-kinkaseki-1.218978[13] http://library.thinkquest.org/26074 /pages/japan.htm