Being a white Irish/English-Canadian baby boomer, I grew up with the belief that the internment of Japanese-Canadians was an erroneous reaction to war time paranoia. This book opened my eyes to the possibility that internment and relocation were the result of decades of entrenched, intentional, systemic, and LEGALIZED racism. If only half of what is written in Redress were true it would still mark a shameful page in Canadian history.