Canada Failing World's Poor, Report Says

Canada failing world poor, you say?
I say Canada is failing CANADA'S poor!


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We have met the enemy and he is us
Pogo
A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.
Plutarch

But why is the impression "out there" that we are generous? And why aren't we?

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"We can have a democracy or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few. We cannot have both."
- Justice Louis Brandeis

The corporate poor are getting all the help they can from Harper and company.

Too bloody bad for everyone else.

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"and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"

"The Weapon" - Rush

Isn't "corporate" and "poor" a contradiction in terms?

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"We can have a democracy or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few. We cannot have both."
- Justice Louis Brandeis

"Isn't "corporate" and "poor" a contradiction in terms?"
it may very well be, however corporate welfare IS a recognized term and it is doled out at the expense of the underclasses


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We have met the enemy and he is us
Pogo
A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.
Plutarch

Exactly, the term used back in the 1970's was "corporate welfare bums".

Business whines and they get their bottle, too damn bad they can't be bothered to clean up after themselves.

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"and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"

"The Weapon" - Rush

I agree with the idea Canadians should be helping their own people first. Our internal problem is related to the managerial self-interest of those who profit from the poverty "industry", the various government busybodies, counsellors, social workers and other "mind worms" who have decided "attitude change" on the part of their "clients" is all that's required...a kind of (un)sympathetic magic which, for too long a time, has been associated with the political left. The influence of the professional politicians and careerists will continue so long as radicals insist on trying to "win over " and "work through" the NDP (and now even the Liberals!). That stuff does not work and never will. Perhaps concentrating effort on programs which might possibily make a difference ( such as a guaranteed annual income ) should be a priority. Change the internal character of own country, AND afterward, opportunities to genuinely assist the "third world" will become self-evident, in my view.

This is all the result of the neoclassical market economic theory, so what's the big suprise ?

As long as this criminal theory is permitted to be taught exclusively in our universities and governments follow the sick advice of their brainwashed economists, the situation will only get worse. Or as Maggie Thatcher would say: TINA.

Ed Deak, Big Lake, BC.

To hang some numbers around this issue, a recent survey in Toronto counted the number homeless to be around 5,000 (five thousand) or so.

The publicised Toronto budget for the homeless is about $220,000,000 (two hundred and twenty million)per year.

Anybody see anything WRONG with this?

Would you agree that this is a case of your tax dollars at work (or being squandered, wasted, poured down the drain, etc.)?

As for foreign aid, there is evidence that most of it winds up in the pockets of the powers-that-be in the "poor countries".

H.F. Wolff

I see a great deal wrong with it actually.

Part of the price a nation pays when it allows companies to maintain head offices here while relocating their production/customer service facilities overseas or to mexico.

And the more companies using that form of cost reduction, the higher those numbers are going to get.

Isn't corporate capitalism just such a wonderful thing?

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"and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"

"The Weapon" - Rush

Exactamundo! I should have given some straight forward examples but was in a hurry.