When did the Government of Canada apologize for the wrongs done to Japanese Canadians during wartime?

Discover Canada records the apology in one direct sentence. The guide writes: The Government of Canada apologized in 1988 for wartime wrongs and compensated the victims. The year the test wants is therefore 1988.

The wrongs themselves are described in the same passage. Discover Canada writes: Regrettably, the state of war and public opinion in B.C. led to the forcible relocation of Canadians of Japanese origin by the federal government and the sale of their property without compensation. This occurred even though the military and the RCMP told Ottawa that they posed little danger to Canada. The 1988 apology came in response to that policy — forcible relocation and the sale of property without compensation, despite advice from the country's own military and police that it was not necessary.

The wartime context is also in Discover Canada. The guide records that, in the Pacific war, "Japan invaded the Aleutian Islands, attacked a lighthouse on Vancouver Island, launched fire balloons over B.C. and the Prairies, and grossly maltreated Canadian prisoners of war captured at Hong Kong." So the public mood that produced the policy is the same period that ended on August 14, 1945 with Japan's surrender — but the federal apology and compensation came almost five decades later, in 1988.

The 1988 apology is one of Discover Canada's clearest examples of the country acknowledging a domestic injustice in plain language. The guide does not soften the description: it uses the words "forcible relocation", "the sale of their property without compensation," and "wartime wrongs." The apology, paired with compensation, is presented as the corrective.

The question is testing whether new citizens have remembered Discover Canada's exact year for the federal apology. The guide commits to 1988 — and pairs the apology with two specific actions: "apologized... for wartime wrongs and compensated the victims."

The other answer choices each test a near-miss. 1945 is the year of Japan's surrender, not the Canadian apology — far too early. The 1970s answer choice is too early; 1995 is too late. Discover Canada's figure is 1988, and only that.