McPherson and the team working with the Custodian of Enemy Property started selling belongings deemed as “perishable”. Examples of these items would be grocery stock or other things that would deteriorate quickly. All of these items were sold without consent. Soon, the Custodian began claiming that items like fishing boats and automobiles were to be classified as perishable as well. Glenn McPherson rationalized this by saying that they were losing value over time and that the government couldn’t afford to maintain them. Not soon after, in the later months of 1942, McPherson began to argue that all Japanese Canadian owned property was perishable[https://loi.uvic.ca/narrative/cases/case-3.2.html]. Only property loosely defined by the Custodian of Enemy Property as having “sentimental value and religious nature” would be preserved throughout the auctions until 1949.