Foreign Aid

Posted on Tuesday, November 27 at 11:18 by psiclone
Canada’s aid to other countries was 0.35 per cent of economic output in 2005. It fell to 0.3 per cent in 2006 and is expected to fall to 0.29 by 2010, according to Ministry of Finance documents obtained by CTV News. Harper also said Canada is set to meet a pledge to double aid to Africa by fiscal year 2008 — a pledge started by the former Liberal government. Harper committed $105 million over the next five years for the global initiative known as Catalytic Initiative To Save A Million Lives, a $500 million project to provide health-care services for poor mothers and children in Africa and Asia. Harper made the announcement after a luncheon with Tanzanian President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete. The visit came a day after the end of the Commonwealth summit on climate change in Uganda, where Harper characterized the Kyoto accord as a flawed document. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071126/harper_aid_071126/20071126?hub=QPeriod

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  1. Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:16 pm
    I find it amusing that this came out on the same day that Child Poverty in Canada was found out to be no better than they day they vowed to eliminate it.

    I like the fact that the goal is .7% of GDP. It's achievable, and can eliminate child poverty in Africa. How about another .7% for Canadian Children?


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  2. by Belle
    Thu Nov 29, 2007 4:42 pm
    I agree Dr Caleb, only more so when I consider what has been so horrifically done to my children by the system in Canada while the Canadian government willfully ignores our pleas for help and justice, as well as the significant and abundant evidence that proves my children are not the only ones severely injured and mistreated as my sons and I have been, and the endless numbers of children seriously mistreated by children and family services in this country as the evidence proves. And the way social assistance programs have been gutted to the point where children going hungry and without shelter and the basics of life is inevitable and yet acceptable by those responsible.

    I don't believe the funds are going where Stephen Harper says they are going because I know Stephen Harper doesn't give a damn about human life or rights or the well-being of anyone but himself and his co-conspirators, and Stephen Harper and his government have no right to give Canadians money away to anyone when they have turned their backs on the very people they were elected to and are paid to serve. Tell me is a parent that abuses and neglects their own children while treating other children with love and kindness a good parent and a decent human being...NO!



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