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Enemy Aliens: Immigration

War Measures Act Dept: War has many consequences, none of them pretty, according to Montreal Gazette. In Canada, as in England, extraordinary precautions were taken during WWII to protect the nation from "enemy aliens" within. This included the internment of many Canadian citizens of Japanese, Italian and German background. Civil rights were suspended under the War Measures Act. Property was confiscated and sold and paradise by the River One aspect of the Canadian experience during the Second World War is depicted in Vittorio Rossi's Paradise by the River, in revival mode at Centaur Theatre, having premiered there in 1998. As reported in the news.
@t vittorio rossi, revival mode