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George T抑aka Addresses
Ladies and Gentlem—
}Recently, theobserVaUon was 雄dもto me, that weseem to be h"ving nothing but the connotation ENEMIES around us, because the hi story of Uie Japan"e Canadians is entはled, "The Enemy That Never Was",きnd the. ne、vNaUonalFilm Poard t、ven-ty minute filni on J丰nese Ca" nadians， is titled "Enemy Aliens,,, もut I thiiiic there is sひme I truth in theobぉrva.tion,j[)^ause ifthei,もiミanenemy,it is within Canada UseIf. And perhaps the antithesis of tMs ' Ei^JEMy, if suchビ妇be a consiieraUon, is the other half of my subject matter: Tke Co:operative (!3omndi-"ee or I Ja'ぉanese ,C ana cHans.
In eai'ly1958, t.he National JO(^A initiiated a 'history contest amongst J>|>anese CJ&nacUaTVsac-r03s Canada/ based onthe proi>o-s&lof havitig thみJapan一e Canadians submはstoiiiesoi thもir pei'-s0nale3cperieひces. Thjeobjie^t was to stimulate interest allover thecoimむ、y in the pi,(>je<it of writing a hiatoryoまthe Jaぉane:Se Ganadians. The members of the histQi'y Committee,やho also served "judges of theヽhi;story contest, were Frank Moritsugu and Raymond MoHyama， andi served as chadi'man. The judges 、Vei,e highly impressed by the Japaneselanguage winners who took the first three prizes; namely, the winners Mi'sにKoto Kawamoto of Vancouver; jilr. Manzo Yoshida oJ^ Queibec and M'r.iSaenosuke Kubota of To r on 二 to.
In1959 the NationalJ CCA pro, posed to the provincialchapters of l^he JCCA, to umiei,take the financialobjectives ofi\aising some 多16，000 to冬20,000 for the history proje<;t. And recommen. ded to COmmission K«n Adachi to <k> the research and "vyriting of the history. The 'history Committee had been impress^ by Wieliterary quality of an18,000 邻ard short h,istoi'y of'the Japanese Canadians in British Columbia, just completed by Ken A* dachi for the NationalJCCA. Since thenお11the present day, after a span of18 yeai.s， the history has finally been comple-ited. The heai,tacheさand concerns of that span of the history project, in itseぱis along $toi'y. .Ho、veve.i"，：it .was - in tW- -wigdon^ of the history committee to母llひw Ken Ad&chi fullccintrolof his research and writihg without editor】'ぇ1ihterfereiiee.
It I the greaterpart of the past many years, it was the re-liiarkable work of the national 战eiiuぉve convmittee ttm1t irmきt be acknowiedが4，邻.hen the fullき-ce も lie yolun—y of its
meiTibers was put taきk， irithis majpr undertaking the National JOCんIt shouW be said that thふhistory wTほing is tiie worl^ of 01)e man. No do^bt theiSe will be (ound differeniccs of oiHnion in "wthehiゅryixQOk shouidlijive b^ii wriゅn, but U;iere多s no 《oiibt tー the book judged as a total,0verallhh—ケ0f theぉ-P，nese Qanad】tms' has fully covered th(& main theme, and the qualはy of this writingおfi"t r&te. It is in fact quはe as u peri-or piece of writing to whicJv tl>e puMi9))er3 will>Uest. It is a book 一that we can be ptx)u4. Appre. ciationihu&t be expressed to K賴 Adachi for 、vHUng the history.
Of course, our weaknesses and our strengths are tokl】our shortcomings »nd our good poinU;
butoverはall,はisti:ue to our
The history P( the Japanese Canadはiis is a hiistory of Canadian^ ひ is a history book that 、vUlattest the reposition that, as we ai'e today citizensofCa， we Were in om' inhetitance, ji^tasmuoh,citii5eTisりf Oana-|n1942. Iぃis ah i story that ,rms on; the fra,iesカf a democratic society;tlieweak 帥s of .human fear, !iatre4 and prejudice, and evenpoUticaiseぱ. さerving. Butt the principles worth fighting foi， in a dem<K^racy that didmJtさntlreb^ f^il,お汰P汰t of the story of the history.汰 おa histoi'yカfヌtoh tli^Cania-dlan pひbli(?乡houW be infoi^in€d， It is多ureiy a work of aiもゃonta-inlng 、vはhirt "s pages, theliumaii 'higi'eゅieTi.ts of". '-na画i'raMタe,, di'ama: find biograぉhy; and aMlysis,— interpretation. It should be an cmtstandingゅntdbutiotv to the literatvire of Canada and to t;he Canadian people. It is alegacy andbackgw— of heritage for the s鈕sei generation and comiing
It i"my obligation and affec-tionat* rem6mbi'anれto tell you 'briefly汰bout the; Coやpera-tiveCommはtもe onJaipa^nese Canadians/a remarkable and extra-or din aひand valiant group of non«Japanese indiviiduals, who ■served .on..the Co-operative .Cひ,m-miはee working for the cause of the Japanese (Canadian people.
I have in my hand a small pamphlet entitled, "They Made Democracy Work", the stひry of the Go-operative Committee on Japanese Canadians. It was published soon after the Co-opera-' tivらCommittee came to the etid of its woi'k. When the Japanese Ganadians suffered theevacua: tic^n from coastalBrはish Columbia .and ■ from:.their -.homes' in 1942; aind when they were threatened with some wholesale de-portaはon from Canada, tひ《japan; and when tt^ey suffered thelosses of their property and possessions; it was then during the pもriod of1943, when the Cooperative Committee 、yas formed; おmi during1944, 45， 46， 47， 48, 49, 50, and1951,when the final settlement by the Govei,n-irtent forprひperty，io5ses claims were made to tlie J"ap红nese Canadians, the Co-operaぉce GomnU-ttee completed its for tlie
cause of theぉーnese Canadians' and ..'finally dissolved, its'or.gani,' zaticm. I tbinH Icanbぉtdesゃri-be toyou :furゅer about the Cp-opei^tive Co nunはtee byrepeat， ing part ofゅe "For€word" and the "Afterword" of this pamphlet, quote, "In ， certain働nth within thelast d"(lesome23,-000 resWentsofacertain area <>f a c'wtaiii country were \iproote<^ from their homゃs.Maiijr ofthem wire given only!few Hours' notice. They we re alio Wed to take with, then) only-ai. couple of.si;-itcase;s — anything which they COUI4 not (j^riy ha<i to belさf《 behhid.:■ -The'-decree---was .iss.uei(i for "Security Reasons", but, on the yrord of the Prime Minister' these people were "Guilty of1^0 crime, or ーnゃf any iilintention". An objective cb^rveトwould probably assume that such a wholesale uprooting of iimoceht people could take piace only in a totalitarian country. 6ntr this happened in Canada.
"A century and a half John Philpot Cuiran   gave us
one of tlie axiomsorden〗oりacy when he wrote: Theco"则o" upon载oh Godhajth given】i. beity to man is etei'nal:vigila，i. .ce. :,
"To 0 0 ft en we think of demo cracy assomething that exists
not sひmethinぉ仇at加ustl^e' ゃontinua11,defended mid ated. 'The issues that   t hi'eaten itdぱfer' Tiyith theagp and the country, but thereareahvays cha"れges that hi11st be met if demo(Si^がy: itおbe preserved, Rai— di3cHmination is, imfoi'tii: patelyv no new thing, and the Nazi theories 6f racism we】'e not witlv Hiゃlei'.In the、var a^^ainst discrimination there, ai'e alw扭ys many fronts, but inCa-irada^udngthe war ahdi化st-war yearsもhie 一 crucialfront 、v'" the c汰mpゅign toさeciu.e justi(ie theJapariese Canadians. This was' lio new pi,obIem,L(ing before the war, C?anadia" citぉens ぇJaps(Tiese origin suffeiedun. dei* resti'ications which did not prevailagainst citizens of other facialorigins. \Viien the to came the situaUon became so ei」ti. calthat it was no exaggeration to say that theacid test of our democracy was 、vh《ther we 、me going to treat ouv JaぉaneseCa-nadiaus as citizens or coi"hme to discriminate agahはt U體 solely  because  of  theh' racial origin. Fortunately a group of Canaciiiaiis who believed that de. nioeracy was more than a龍'd determined to do something; about it. Thislittle pamph】et is the story ofwhat they did." IwiU quote a j^artt of the ('Aftmvoi'd" —('After eight years, the issues whichled to the ioming of the Oo-operative Committee onJapa-nese Canadians have been setレ led. The Committee was not solely responsible for this settlement, but it did piay aleacUng part. Iぃwas the instrument by which thousands of Canadians who wanted to see justice done were able to influence goveiiレ menttpoliey. The test of demo-cjL,acy is how wellcivilliberties SIhvlive in a time of crisis, and it J's .he a;»ten in g to know that in a time of ci*i^s, a substantial eross"seoぉon of Canadians cquW rise above the ーvdling hyste. ria  to  protect  the democratic 1^ighぉof a mmonty group. They made democracy 、voi:k because they eared/enouゆaboutミt to makeれwoirk.,,.
Themeimbers <xf the Co-operative Committee on Japanese Canadians were: もVいDr. James》[. Pinぉy, Chairman; Andrew Bie-win, M,P" LegalCourisel;Margaret Bo叫ぉret勿;aH of whoni are present here: tひi"ぉht. ねr. Hugh and Mrs; DonaWa MacMUlan, both of《vhonihave passed aw多y, contributed greatly to the work of the C;ommittce; and tha 6thier members, TIヽ'：-chols; Fred Haslam; Hait"' Fowler; Edith Fひwke; and alsoGi， ce Tucker and Ab Watiori. In the early yekrs too,や'ere Constance dhappell,'i;niniき-TO an and Florゅc、. Bird. Kinz':i、 and George Tanaka, ?ol?er Oba-ta,Kunio Hidaka)ndやUni"' zuW and Fred Kondo 、voi.ko<l with the Cpminれtee.Tひmy dear friends Rev. Finlayami Andrew Bi，ewin hcreton':ghl，， wouldlike to sayんth幼ithai their work and contribuUon was outstanding, andゆe same of course applies to my de>ar friend' Marg Boo3, Thank you indeed.