Jajo's Secret is a 2009 made for TV documentary film about the internment of Ukrainians by the government of Canada during the First World War.
[2] The movie begins with the discovery by filmmaker Motluk of a parole certificate issued to his late grandfather, Elias, in 1918.
After the war, these prisoners were paroled and made to work as forced labour in many private Canadian companies on the railroad, in the mines and even building the national park system.
During the production of the film, the government finally apologized to the Ukrainian community and agreed to pay restitution.
[4] The title refers to Motluk's grandfather whom he would call Jajo, a child's version of Tato which is Ukrainian for father.