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Canwest News Service
A proposal to issue an apology and compensate Italian-Canadians interned during the Second World War sparked a fiery exchange yesterday after a Bloc Quebecois MP compared wartime internment to the treatment of FLQ suspects in 1970. In the Commons heritage committee, Bloc MP Roger Pomerleau expressed support "because the same types of injustices were committed against French Quebecers" during the FLQ crisis in 1970. The comments prompted a sharp response from MP Dean Del Mastro, the Conservative member for Peterborough, Ont. "There is no similarity there," he said, noting that Italian-Canadians interned in 1940 "were just everyday people going about their lives" when they were "pulled off the street." More than 700 Italian-Canadians were sent to the Petawawa prison camp, pictured, during the Second World War.
