Notes: The Clark government's first public speech on the topic, two days after they had announced the target of 50,000 refugees for Canada (from then until the end of 1980, i.e. one and a half years). They had been in power for 6 weeks at this point, but the speech is largely a promotional piece for all that Canada has done for refugees. The title of the speech is a direct shot at Vietnam, who attended on the condition that the conference discuss only "humanitarian" aspects of the refugee problem, not the "political" ones. She is determined that 'blame' for the present crisis be assigned to the countries of origin as human rights violations by those countries. UNHCR wanted to discuss solving the problem of the countries of first asylum. |