I don't know much about Canadian internment camps -- hell I don't even know that much about American ones. fortunately for me, The Electrical Field had a little "bookclub" section at the back featuring an interview with the author, where she talked a bit about Canada's policies. The US's treatment of Japanese citizens was bad, and Canada's was even worse, if you can believe it. I just wanted to quote a couple of passages because well it's pretty fucked.

"In Canada, the government seized and sold land and personal property and the proceeds were used to build the camps. In other words, they made Japanese Canadians pay for their own incarceration. In the United States there were panic sales, looting, and depreciation, but no government sale of property because of constitutional protections. Families were not broken up in the United States as they were in Canada. ... a policy of exile to Japan and dispersal eastward continued for years after the war ended. These policies were intended to permanently destroy the Japanese Canadian coastal communities. ... It seems sad to me that there is no Little Tokyo or Japantown in anywhere in Canada -- only vestiges of the original one in Vancouver. This is the legacy of the Canadian government's policy of forced dispersal. There has been, as a result, a kind of cultural impoverishment for my generation."