"We'll take the other 4000."

In the spring of 1979, as desperate refugees fled persecution and chaos in Southeast Asia, Canada's capital city and its Mayor Marion Dewar bravely stepped up to the plate in an effort to resettle thousands of those displaced by conflict. Project 4000, as it came to be know, marked the beginning of large scale resettlement programs in Canada. 

Listen as Brian Buckley, author of "The Gift of Freedom", describes a "luminous summer in Ottawa".