Wartime Discrimination

Ukrainian Canadians ---> "enemy aliens" because many had come to Canada from Austria-Hungary. ( Britain's enemy during the war) It fell under the War Measures Act in 1914 which was shortly after the war broke out. The government got great power. ( Example: to arrest people without charging them with any offence.)

5000 Ukrainians were imprisoned under the War Measures Act and 80 000 were enemy aliens.

Japanese Canadians were usually targeted during World War II because before the war they had endured anti-Asian discrimination. This was caused when the japanese attacked Pearl Harbour ( <--- bad choice ! )
Canada refused entry to thousands of Jewish refugees escaping persecution in Nazi Germany or else it'll upset Canada's ethnic balance. Anti-Semitishm and anti-immigrant feelings were strong in Canada at that time. Refugees were forced to return to Europe where perished later during the Holocaust.