Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ottawa Citizen: "Such a [defense] pact is obviously useful both to the United States and to the South American nations. But it would make complications for Canada. This Dominion has its own defense understanding with the British Commonwealth and the United States. No treaties are needed to assure us that in the event of an attack upon our shores the British Dominions and the United States would spring to our assistance...
Slowly but purposefully, the Dominion Government has been washing its hands of its 12,000 Japanese. They were whisked off to relocation camps after Pearl Harbor; in the two years since war's end, Ottawa has pressured nearly 4,000 of them into moving back to Japan, has discreetly resettled most of the others.*By last week, the Government was down to the last damned spot-a stubborn little band of 59 in a camp just south of Moose Jaw, Sask. The spot would not come...
...they be allowed to return to their prewar homes in British Columbia. But that was impossible. Early in the war, the Dominion Government confiscated and sold their homes and property, paid them only a small percentage of what the holdings were worth. Then B.C.'s provincial government got Ottawa to issue an order in council barring Japanese from a 100-mile-wide area on the West Coast. Ottawa acted in haste. It was beginning to repent...
Fortnight ago, when the 59 declared they "would rather die" than leave the camp and take the jobs Ottawa had dug up for them, the Government cut off the camp's food supply. This move did not budge the Japanese; they simply took their earnings (from camp work) and bought their meals in Moose Jaw. The next logical step seemed to be to close the camp and set the holdouts adrift. The trouble was that Canada was getting an uneasy conscience and a close-out might set off a political ruckus...
...likely to start a run on the Dominion's depleted supply. But if they should decide that the stock was dangerously low, they could start a run by stepping up their orders of U.S. goods, and getting U.S. dollars from Canadian banks to pay the bills. Ottawa's view is that with a half-billion loan in the kitty, Canadian businessmen would not start the run, and little of the loan would have to be used...