Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney apologized for the internment policy in November 1990 but did not provide financial compensation.

It started off badly - in April 1940 Norman Birkett spoke of 'gross mistakes and pathological stupidities in connexion with its internment policy (p. 39)- but it got better.

In December, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the internment policy is illegal and the War Department prepares to close the camps.

Critiques of the internment policy, by writers such as Galen Fisher appeared, regularly in the Century, and helped bring awareness to the situation.

Another victim of the internment policy was Cherry Y. Tsutsumida, who has been the executive director of the foundation to build the Japanese American Memorial for the past four years.

At the time, Arcadia's civic leaders were very vocal in their support of the internment policies of the federal government.

Even moderate Catholics who opposed the I.R.A. joined in public demonstrations and campaigns to withhold tax and rent payments to protest the internment policy.

Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's government responded to Miki's request by expressing its regret for the wartime internment policy, but did not offer financial compensation.

Mulroney also delivered an apology for the wartime internment policy to the Canadian House of Commons.

The larger unionist population in Northern Ireland was further alienated from Irish republicanism by the campaign, and considered that its internment policy had worked.