TORONTO – Justin Trudeau today offered at the House of Commons an official apology for the treatment of the Italian-Canadian community in the 1940s. The mea culpa recited by the Prime Minister for the decisions taken by the government of the time led by William Lyon Mackenzie King was not limited, as was to be expected, to the narrative of the suffering and injustice suffered by 600 men and four women of Italian origin interned in concentration camps scattered throughout the country, but touched all the strings of labour and tribulations suffered by all Italian Canadians since June 1940. →
Today, Prime Minister Trudeau will rise in the House of Commons, today, May 27 and offer apologies to a class of Canadians for what their Canadian government of the day did to them, 80 years ago. Briefly, it declared them “enemy aliens”.
That designation caused many to lose their jobs, depriving their families of sustainable income, making their homes prone to the designs of rapacious municipal officials eager to expropriate for non-payment of property taxes. It subjected all of them to placement under police surveillance, exposed them all to vexatious and malicious ridicule and lead more than 700 individuals being interned in concentration camps without due process.
Their “crime”? They we were of Italian ethnicity. Overnight, the designation “converted” them from being valuable members of the Canadian federation to being labeled Fascists, Nazis, Imperialist…
WATCH THE LIVE DISCUSSION IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, CLICK HERE AND PRESS PLAY: https://www.cpac.ca/en/direct/cpac1/
TORONTO – Pressure continues on the provincial government on vaccinations. While Ontario’s mass immunization campaign is proceeding smoothly – at least in recent weeks – there have been growing calls for the executive led by Premier Doug Ford to have a clear strategy on administering the second dose of vaccine. →
TORONTO – As mass vaccination progresses according to the roadmap, the desire to return to a normal life after a year and a half of pandemic, lived between lockdown and restrictions, grows. And this desire for normality, at least for now, comes up against the necessary caution with which the provincial government has decided to reopen Ontario’s economy. →
TORONTO – With an influx of vaccine supply, pop-up clinics appear to be springing up all over the place. Such is the case at Canada Post (CPC). The Canada Post Corporation (CPC), together with the Ministry of Ontario and public health partners will begin to offer onsite vaccines to its employees, and their families, at the Gateway facility (4567 Dixie Rd., Mississauga), starting today (May 21).
This is the second onsite clinic for CPC employees, but the first to include their family members. On May 18, a two-day mobile clinic offered vaccines to CPC workers at a facility in Toronto. →
