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Renewal - Japanese Canadian Redress Secretariat
Following the September 22, 1988 redress announcement, the government established the Japanese Canadian Redress Secretariat (JCRS), under the direction of Executive Director Anne Scotten. This government agency was responsible for establishing the redress application procedures and deciding upon individual redress claims.
Anne Scotten recruited several Japanese-speaking members of the Japanese Canadian community in Ottawa to work in the Secretariat’s office. One of the main goals of the Secretariat was to establish an open and accessible process that would be appropriate and sensitive to the culture of the community they were serving. Within six weeks of its official opening of December 15, 1989, the Secretariat had received 12,000 applications. By December 1994, near the end of its five-year mandate, the Secretariat had processed 18,534 applications in which 17,948 payments of $21,000 were issued and 586 applications were rejected.
Anne Scotten was a member of the government negotiation team headed by Honourable Gerry Weiner in August 1988.
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