Y-Dang Troeung’s arrival in Canada, nearly four decades ago, came with the most official of welcomes.
Then-prime minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau shook her father’s hand as she — not yet a year old — bounced in her mother’s arms, eyes wide at the camera flashes.
They had just landed in Canada and had been shuttled immediately to Ottawa for the photo-op, to be the faces of a wave of refugees then arriving from Cambodia.
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