TreeBeard

Canada’s ability to pay its debts (debt and deficit to GDP) looks pretty rosy compared to most of the G7. Why does everyone ignore our fiscal situation compared to other countries?

This just in! Liberals take Saskatchewan and Manitoba!

Then why would Canada ever agree to changing the borders? We just might have to rent a few cruise ships to get rid of the separatists.

They also insisted that there was a conspiracy to bring in “Liberal voters”.

No one cares about your lying rightwing racist talking points. You got that correct.

This has to be the weirdest right-wing issue that they set their hair on fire over. A complete boogeyman.

Isn’t this something you Trump fans should like about the guy?

Why is the question moot? You scared to answer a hypothetical question?

Are you asking if Carney eats insects?

Some say lizard people walk among us and the world is flat. The lizard and flat earth people are as crazy as the WEF people, like yourself.

Which part do you disagree with?

Ask your fellow Christians who take money from the Canadian government to buy food for the great work they do in foreign aid. Maybe those are the REAL Christians? https://foodgrainsbank.ca/about-us/members/ Canadian Foodgrains Bank is a partnership of 15 church and church-based agencies working together to end global hunger. Together, our members represent nearly 30 Christian denominations made up of over 12,000 individual congregations across Canada. Each of our members has an account at the Foodgrains Bank that they can draw from to provide food assistance during emergencies around the world and to fund programs that support families and communities in their efforts to access more and better food in the long term.

I don’t think you’re correct. https://foodgrainsbank.ca/about-us/members/ Yeah, the paper you linked shows why it’s a terrible idea to do this. I argue that Canadian political and especially economic objectives in Mongolia led to a mining-centred aid program that reflected Canadian priorities and interests, instead of one that prioritized the needs of Mongolians.

Yeah, NGOs got the money to buy food. The food they bought came from farms closer to where it was needed, not as a subsidy to Canadian farmers.

And this organization buys the food from wherever it wants, not just Canadian farmers, if at all. It just wouldn’t be efficient. It might not be what is needed. Americans do it as a subsidy to their farmers. Canada chooses to be more efficient in how it spends foreign aid dollars.

They do? I think Canada provides the funds to foreign aid organizations to buy food, but doesn’t tie it to just Canadian farms. Tying it to Canadian farmers would be inefficient. It’s better to buy the food closer to where it’s needed to avoid the expense of shipping it, among other extra costs.

She didn’t write it. Plagiarized cut/paste.

I doubt we’ve had much successes. Too many conservative men in the world. But that doesn’t mean we stop trying. In fact, it probably means we need to try harder and spend more. If it did work, would you be in favour of that foreign aid spending?

Plagiarized wall of text, as predicted.

You need me to look that up for you? You don’t think we should spend any money on foreign aid, including on trying to stop female genital mutilation, so why would it matter to you what the results were?

Over 10 years. “…focusing on projects directly targeting gender equality and women’s empowerment…” So you don’t want Canada to promote the equality of women in Muslim countries? I think that would be money well spent. When women are treated equally poverty goes down, fewer women have unwanted pregnancies (abortions). Why wouldn’t you want that? Even most conservatives would say they want women to be equal. I guess you’re a different sort….

You think @Goddess uses the word “betwixt” in her posts? It’s a copy/paste job from a substack with no citation. Plagiarized.

You think Canada spends $11B on gender studies abroad? The figure quoted by @blackbird is that Canada spends $6.3B on foreign aid total. So you may want to re-check your number. But do you think any foreign aid program at all benefits Canada?

The OP (article) also says the $6.3B spent on foreign aid is more than the department of health, which is a blatant lie. Also, we don’t have a department of health. We have Health Canada. The quality of the cite from @blackbird is very suspect. Health Canada’s budget is around $13.7B. I do math frequently, so I know that 13.7 > 6.3. https://canadaspends.com/en/spending/health-canada Do you think any foreign aid benefits Canada in some way?

Can I just use a definition where Canada remains a 1st world country? Then I don’t need to read that long copy/paste post.