Canadian Prime Minister Justin trudeau he apologized in Parliament for the internment of Italian Canadians during the Second World War. After Italy declared war on him in 1940, Canada interned more than 600 people of Italian descent and declared 31,000 “enemy aliens“. These “foreign enemies”, whose fingerprints were taken, were checked and forced to report.
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by Filippo Santelli
“We are sorry“, Trudeau announced, expressing his displeasure to those who – without a formal charge, and without being able to defend themselves in a fair trial – were held in camps or in prison as prisoners of war (” People who are no longer here with us to listen to these excuses “). To whom, innocent, was precisely defined “enemy alien“. And also “to the children and grandchildren who brought the shame and pain of the past generation”. Finally, to a community, that of the Italian-Canadians, “which has given so much to the country” (and today has about 1.6 million people, one of the largest in our diaspora in the world).
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“To stand up against the Italian regime, which had sided with Nazi Germany, was right – added the prime minister – But to scapegoat the Italian-Canadians who respected the law, this was a mistake”.
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