Japanese Canadian Internment | Narrated by David Suzuki

Narrated by David Suzuki
Directed & Edited by Adam Tindal
Written by Don Gillmor
Graphics & Animation by Julia Paddick
Produced by Jason Duprau and Jennifer McGill
Executive Producer: Jennifer Morse
Recording Engineer: Chris Goldade of Media Button

[vincisrv]

I'm Japanese, but I didn't know and even didn't learn the fact what happened during WWⅡ. Learning history is important today. Thank you for the video.

[coryryder]

thank you david for being a canadian inspiration

[danicagovorchin]

I use this video in my social studies classes, it's an excellent resource. I noticed at the 6 min mark and right at the end of the video the music changes abruptly (which was never the case in the past years that I have used this video). I'm trying to figure out why this change was made, as it impacts the overall production of the video.

[cezary]

David Suzuki was in Slocan, BC in camp as a boy.

[theloniousm]

I watched this video after watching a couple videos about how well German POW's were treated in Canada during WW2. In many cases the German prisoners ate better than local residents as the Canadian government bent over backwards to meet conditions of the Geneva Convention. This video on internment of Canadian citizens of Japanese descent brought me to tears.

[CommentsAllowed]

An estimated total of 70–85 million people died due to WWII. That is probably a clue as to why morals went out the window, and incidents like this happened.
Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

[SebbyB]

For every action, there's a reaction. I condemn what Canada did as a reaction. War is the worst and thank you to all who served for the freedoms we currently have today.

[camilamurillo]

Amazing video!!💕 I love the organization and clarity to transmit ideas.

[marlywoodhouse]

any botty eles watching this for online school

[stephaniejade]

50 years later the property values went up.... Were those families whose property was stolen given their property back or the equivalent in funds, or were the organization representing Japanese-Canadians given the money?

[themonkemachine]

i have a social studies project on this video helped me a lot

[MarkWilliam-plqs]

The same happened in the US to German-Americans, Italian-Americans, and Japanese-Americans. Had we suffered the devastation that Germany did during the war our concentration camps would have suffered the same fate as those of Germany. When infrastructure and supply stores are destroyed famine, and disease bring death and misery

[wendykanashiro]

Please learn from this mistake. I wish more about Japanese Canadian internment was taught in schools. Its Canadian history. I live in an area surrounded by remnants of internment camps....Slocan, Lemon Creek, New Denver, Kaslo ect...yet my children were taught nothing of this in school. Shameful. Learn from this mistake. Respect

[NovaStrike_Yt]

Thanks for this video really helped me in social study❤

[rpm]

David should do a narrative of what happened to the Japanese Canadians who chose to go back to the ancestral homeland.

[bonniehall]

So sad and this type of stuff is still going on!

[ThePhantomSephiroth]

'' Only right they had : ''Right this way!'' ''

- George Carlin

[mattm]

This is war. It is impossible to understand WW2 from our modern, privileged perspective. I`m not saying it was right. The government was wrong, and this history should not be forgotten. Still, we should also keep in mind that Canada treated their minority populations FAR better than most other countries during these horrible times. It`s not because we were "better, " than others. It is because of our geography....our oceans, the pacific and atlantic - placed us FAR far from our enemies. We were allowed the LUXURY of lucky geography, and for this reason we could afford to treat prisoners, minorities and other better than other countries did in WW2.

[minhtruong]

Of note was the fact that Canadians of German origins and Italian origins, although their respective country of origin was part of the Axis which included Japan during WW2, were never oppressed by the government of Canada to the same extent. One possible explanation for this would be the ugliest one we could think of. The very reason why Canada joined the Allies to fight Nazi Germany to start with.

[ma.consolacions.ylanan]

Great grandfather I love you much too much I guess you never known cause I didn't know but I love you all azn girls boys and men especially fathers you guys are the best thing that ever you do too much! I'm just a loser that don't know how to survive without a warmth of a coke softdrink thank you and I love you.