The Canadian government overtly discriminated against particular groups at different times throughout Canadian immigration history. Which group has never received an apology from either the Government of Canada or the prime minister? Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany aboard the St. Louis in 1939, who were refused asylum in Canada Japanese immigrants and Canadian citizens of Japanese descent who were confined to internment camps and whose personal property was confiscated after the bombing of Pearl Harbour in World War II passengers on the Komagata Maru from British India, the majority of whom were forced to return there prospective immigrants from China who were charged a head tax, and later prohibited from coming to Canada at all from 1923 to 1947 by the Chinese Exclusion Act