The camaraderie at this outdoor wiener roast in 1943 hides the deeper trauma the internees had likely suffered. They had lived amid demeaning circumstances; they had wrestled with strains placed on their personal and family lives; and they had attempted to reconcile their internment somehow with the interests of the country whose welfare was all-important to them. "Overall", one veteran of the camps later recalled, "there was a mood of hopelesness, of strong vital people being wasted". The coming of peace did not end their sufferings. Wartime barriers remained until the emergency powers given the federal government under the War Measures Act expired in 1949. Furthermore, the Canadian government pushed ahead with a plan to deport them to Japan until prevented by a supreme court decision and by a public aroused by tales of Nazi horrors to the significance of racial discrimination.
