CIDA

The entire budget of CIDA should be given to one less developed country and applied toward its debt. Absolutely 0% chance of pilferage.

We should not be in another country telling them how to handle affairs or showing them how rich people rule the world. As in Canada so too in another country ... empower the individual country and create responsibility.



That's about $2 billion/annually. Shut down CIDA and their tied aid packages. I wonder how much we'll save on airline tickets, alone?

Seems to me some banker somewheres told me that one of the most effective uses of money is to pay down debt. Why doesn't this apply to poor countries?

Oh, yes, Cycles2K reports (in a link) that Canada has forgiven $1.3 billion in debt to developing countries since 1978.
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Fate. I wrote the above three or four days ago. Today, a person walked through the clinic doors and asked for some Visa chits (or debit blanks or whatever they are called) as they were out. Apparently they are fundraising nearby so that they may go down to Guatemala and "help them build homes and schools."

Don't they know how to build homes or schools in Guatemala? Perhaps the fundraisers should just send the money down. Why do a dozen or so rich white folks have to go and help build community schools or domestic housing? And why do they have to fundraise from school children and considerably less rich Canadians? Don't plane tickets'n stuff cost a lot of money? Hellzbellz, why don't I fundraise two or three thousand dollars and go hang out in Guatemala for a couple of weeks -- I can work a hammer? If travel is required, why don't we bring Guatemalans here for hammer training and then send them back with whatever leftover money there is? Is it really necessary for rich folk to be lording over the poor? And another interesting thing ... I don't recall seeing too many poor Guatemalan tourists galavanting about Calgary telling us how to do stuff. Why is that?