45 Million Children To Die In Next Decade Due To Rich Countries Miserliness

Sounds much like our own politicians claiming to address child poverty in Canada in a ten year timeframe. As we all know, nothing much happened and in some cases it has gotten worse - especially for native children.

Do I hold out hope? Of course, or I wouldn't do the things I do.

Take care,
Roy

It has come to my attention that the federal liberals will try very hard to eliminate 10% of child poverty in the next 10 years. That is not exactly what they said in 1995. What does that mean? It means don't expect anything of substance anytime soon. Sheila Copps has made a case against Paul Martin, saying he is bad-tempered, and has pulled out all the stops in making sure he first, got elected, and now, who knows? If Sheila Copps is only half right, we are in big trouble. Paul Martin is trouble, and it's not going to go away anytime soon.

Guilt driven aid to the '3rd' world may have soothed consciences in G7 countries but it did little to improve anyone's life except for the dictators and other autocrats recieving the money, so it's understandable that people are getting tired of making a few human rights abusers rich.

Zimbabwe is the perfect example - it was Africa's breadbasket, but when Mugabe felt his power might be threatened he decides to destroy any people or institutions that could possibly challenge him. So now millions of Zimbabweans will starve - to death in some cases - and the people who live in G7 countries are in no way to blame for this.

What about the children and people in our own country?If we can't make a diffeerence here,how the hell are we to influence Zimbabwe,Iraq,Iran,all the countries that have suffering children and such.
We can't even get our heads around the fact that we LIKEIT the way it is!Otherwise,we would apply enormous pressure as a people united even tho,we may be worlds apart.

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While an important topic, it has abosolutely no relevance to vive's raison d'etre: the promotion of Canadian independence.

I guess you are really stuck on the idea that nothing affects Canadians except what happens in Canada, nothing could be further from the truth. The very politics which are creating poverty the world over, are creating poverty in Canada. If we don't deal with the issues, we will become a 3rd world nation in terms of quality of life, it is not sufficient to be a sovereing nation and live in squaller, we need to raise the bar, to be free, sovereign and all people have a decent quality of live. If we don't aspire to greatness we will descend into nothingness!

'twas me above, not logged in by mistake


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If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?

Good comment Whelan,

I agree, and how do you keep Canada independent when you don't know what we need to be independent of? And, Canada can be independent in the way we deal with poverty. Stop forcing poverty stricken countries into growing GM foods. Stop shipping our crops as aid into countries that could if given the help they need grow their own foods. There seems to be a perverted way of doing aid/trade going on that keeps the poor poor. I do realize part of this is in part because of corrupt leaders. But then I say ours or theirs?

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The best thing for these children would be free trade. If Europe, the US, Japan, Canada and a few other countries would stop spending enormous amounts of tax dollars supporting agricultural industries - then the '3rd' world food exports would be more competitive and their economies would grow, enabling them to better look after health and education.

The wealthy countries wouldn't have to spend a cent, in fact, the wealthy countries would save enormous amounts of tax dollars.