Obasan really made me think, was the Canadian internment of Japanese-Canadians necessary? I came to conclude, it was the best of all the bad ideas. With the rate of immigration the Canada has, with the huge influx of Canadian immigrants, is it really strange to assume that perhaps one of these immigrants still holds fealty and loyalty to Japan rather than Canada? How can you find out, out of thousands, who could be a spy, or who has the potential to be one? So in the end, i tried to find alternatives to internment camps that still did maintain control over a group of people of which a small amount could be enemy aliens. By this i stress, i am not justifying what the government did, nor the repercussions or how they did it, i am merely wondering what else they could have done? What i found more shocking however was that, Canada also fought against Germany, Austria and Italy, how come immigrants with those roots were not interned? Or at least not to the same scale as the Japanese. So I think it is safe to assume that the internment camp system had racial connections as just seen, but why all the confiscation of property? why the revoking of citizenship, why the mandatory expulsion? I can understand the interment camp system being put in place for possible spies, but really the way it was done was far from what it should be! It was entirely inhumane and the magnitude to which was uncalled for. However, what would the consequences be if they didn’t do it, good and bad i wonder…