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A Sorry State

Canada is becoming a world leader in official apologies. Do they benefit anyone but the people offering them up?
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Robert MaulNovember 11, 2009 10:34 EST

Have the children and or grandchildren of the Japaneese leaders from the 1930's and 1940's apoloized for WWII? Just asking

Francesco SinibaldiNovember 30, 2009 12:10 EST

The border of a feeling.

Sensibility is
to watch in
the garden a
luminous light
with a delicate
sound now
recalling
the pleasure...

Francesco Sinibaldi

AnonymousDecember 03, 2009 15:16 EST

Please look into screening or editing out marketing posts.

AnonymousDecember 03, 2009 19:37 EST

Fantastic Article

RickWDecember 14, 2009 20:29 EST

Robert Maul:

You miss the point. Japanese CANADIANS were interned and their property stolen — without even a hint of complicity with Japanese nationals.

The question I have is: why wasn't the property of the Japanese CANADIANS put into trust, pending guilt or innocence? That it wasn't points directly to the real intent, namely out-and-out thievery by Canadian (white) citizens, with the complicity of the Canadian government.

A "heartfelt" apology by Lyin' Brian was cheap redress indeed - and therefore meaningless. A proper apology would have been restoration of confiscated properties, regardless of who it "inconvenienced" in this day-and-age.

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