In Part 1 we explored the historic prevailing ideas among the general public and politician, mainly in British Columbia, where most Japanese had settled, that people of Asian descent -  in Canada - were a threat to jobs, economic prosperity and security. Despite an investigation by the Standing Committee on Orientals in British Columbia created by Prime Minister Mackenzie King in 1940, that found there was no basis for the deep distrust of Japanese Canadians, the government enacted a registration scheme that saw all Japanese over the age of 16 photographed and fingerprinted. With the advent of WWII, the racist sentiment deepened, and laws and policies stripping Japanese Canadians of basic rights soon followed.