The latest hot issue in the Asian-Canadian community is the Federal government's attempt to name a Vancouver building after a Conservative MP who served during Diefenbaker's government. Howard Green apparently made the following statements: "Orientals (should) be excluded from Canada ." - Vancouver News-Herald front-page story on July 25, 1939 "Mr. Green felt there should be 'no halfway measures about the Japanese question in Canada." 'The Japs must never be allowed to return to British Columbia" - The Vancouver Sun of May 17, 1945 Many Japanese-Canadian and Chinese-Canadian community leaders are speaking out against the naming of the building. My quick perusal of the internet reveals the Hon. Howard Green to have held cabinet positions of Public Works, Defense Building, External Affairs. John Diefenbaker called him “one of the greatest leaders in the field of disarmament and world peace”as he was a strong advocate of world peace and the United Nations.   more »