The UN Refugee Agency

: But the government has the support of the UN Refugee Agency, provinces, cities, the military, airlines, labour organizations, churches and Canadians, according to Toronto Star. It evokes memories of the last time this country opened its arms in such a compassionate embrace and one Toronto man knows better than any the work involved in pulling off such a herculean task. The deadline is probably unnecessarily tight and, to do it right, Canadians would probably give the new Trudeau government the breathing room needed to push the Jan. 1 deadline. Scott Mullin was 22 and barely out of Carleton University when the Star headlined a March 5, 1979, piece about him — Viet refugees view Canadian as a god.’’A few months later, the CBC called him The One-Man Board of Immigration,’’ in a July 1979 piece from reporter Peter Mansbridge. We have to look upon this for ourselves as an investment in the future,’’ the young Mullin told Mansbridge 36 years ago. Mullin, now the vice-president of community relations for the TD Bank, determined which of the so-called Vietnamese boat people came to Canada and which were denied passage, relying largely on gut impressions which resulted in far more yays than nays. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.