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The Architect: Creating the Refugee Resettlement Program

Published: Sept. 10, 2020, 5:28 p.m.

Meet Michael Molloy, former Ambassador of Canada to Jordan and a former public servant with the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Department of Immigration. Mike oversaw the resettlement of Indochinese refugees in Canada in 1979-80 and is the author of Running on Empty: Canada and the Indochinese Refugees, 1975-1980. In this episode we talk about the creation of the refugee resettlement program in Canada, and how law and policy can be created and deployed in quick, flexible and innovative ways to respond to crises