Apology to Japanese-Canadians
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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Brian Mulroney formally apologized today for the internment of 22,000 Japanese-Canadians following Japan’s 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II.
Mulroney said the Canadian government would provide $288 million in compensation to the 12,000 survivors. Most of that money will be given in $21,000 payments to each of the survivors. The U.S. government decided this summer to pay $20,000 to each of the 120,000 survivors of U.S. internment camps.
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