The dispossession and sale of property of Japanese Canadians was recognized as having long term implications for Japanese Canadians. Secretary of State Norman McClarty stated that the forced sales would be “tantamount to saying that Canadians will never be returned to Vancouver...This may of course be desirable”. Scholars note that Ian Mackenzie, the British Columbia representative in Cabinet, supported this “permanent exclusion of Japanese Canadians from the entire ' ‘coast of British Columbia’” Further, the Veteran’s Land Act distributed the dispossessed land of Japanese Canadians to returning WWII veterans, resulting in Japanese Canadians having nothing to return to when internment ended in 1949.