You may wish to see the attached statement which was issued by the Co-operative Committee on Japanese Canadians following the decision of the Supreme Court in the Japanese reference.

Also attached are three letters which are typical of the communications that we continue to receive each day. The majority of them are from church organizations, or from persons who have contact with church work. In my memorandum of February 11, concerning the memorandum sent out by the National Inter-church Advisory Committee on the Resettlement of Japanese Canadians, I mentioned that we were receiving “an average of possibly 10 to 15 letters a day protesting against the deportation policy”.
Since that time the number has somewhat increased. In the last week in February, we were receiving possibly 30 letters a day, though now the number has fallen to about 20 per day. Over the last three-month period we have probably received in the civinity of 700 to 1000 letters on this subject.

The number received has made it necessary to send a reply only if the letter has special merit or particularly calls for an answer.

Dated March 4, 1946 Signed RGR
(R.G. Robertson – Assistant to the Prime Minister)

“Mr. Robertson who has been following this subject closely tells me we almost never receive letters advocating or supporting the deportation policy.”

Signed JWP (JWP – Jack W. Pickersgill – Assistant to the Prime Minister)