State sponsored xenophobia is not a new phenomenon. The internment of Japanese-American citizens during World War 2 had its counterpart in Canada and no less a luminary than David Suzuki was among those so interred. This example is in our recent past but for historical examples see the 1755 Expulsion of the Acadians in my native Nova Scotia; the subject of Longfellow’s poem Evangeline. In 1941 the Empire of Japan had just staged the devastatingly perfidious raid on Pearl Harbour and in reaction to this event all west coast citizens of Japanese descent were interred. What threat these people, many of whom were third- and forth—generation citizens of both countries, represented is unclear in hindsight but they were a visible target for our outrage and not only were they moved to concentration camps but their possessions were confiscated providing a definite economic motive for this action. For another illustration of this event in the movies see 1999’s Snow Falling on Cedars based on the book of the same name by David Guterson. We may not have sent these people to gas chambers as Hitler did the Jews in Europe but our actions were no less reprehensible. To say that this was the internees while they were busy profiting from their misfortune.