The major criticism, however, is that CIDA spreads Canadians' money too thinly among too many countries to accomplish any lasting good in any one nation. CIDA itself has recognized this. More than five years ago it announced a plan to concentrate aid in fewer countries. In 2005 it promised that Canada would distinguish between the deserving and the undeserving poor in granting aid. Aid dollars would be targeted at underdeveloped nations that are demonstrating a commitment to democracy, human rights and the free-market economy.
The success of CIDA in implementing that strategy can perhaps be measured by the fact that in the year 2000, when the agency adopted it, it donated aid to 120 nations; in 2006, when it was still adopting it, that number had swollen to 161 countries.
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CIDA Failing Them, Us
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This is when I think that exchange programs would come in most handily. We send our young people to developing nations to actually do the building of schools, wells etc.., so that the exchange goes beyond we give you money if and only if you grow our GMO seeds or let our environmentally challenged corporations dig big sewer pits under your vegetable garden and home.
In other world we as citzens of the world need to be more involved rather than leaving it up to the politicians that use people and these situations for their own disgusting purposes. They are the last ones we want representing us on the world stage.
This could be made a privlidge and an honour for school students to consider this kind of exchange. I know I sure would have jumped at the chance when I was in highschool and even beyond and who knows maybe even now if they'll accept the creaky.
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