text: Why would anyone argue for destroying the evidence? You can seal it until a person has died (+10 years) and so protect their privacy but also ensure that critical reviews and evaluations of the process can be done by future historians/researchers. Most of the records of Canada's first national internment operations were deliberately destroyed at what was then known as the National Archives of Canada so eliminating critical information about what remains a little-known injustice. Let's not repeat that mistake.