My goodness. The bulk of my refugee work was done from 1988 through 1994. At that point, I couldn't take the stories of pain and suffering any more. Even today, I don't want to recall those oaths. It's too high a personal price, frankly. I dwindled it down. I decided to help extremely large numbers by taking problems to media and correcting what I perceived as problems with our Canadian refugee determination system, to aid people that way rather than as individuals. There was more bang for the buck, so to speak, and I could continue the good work at a different level.
