Canada lags on UN poverty goals

[Oleg Bach]

I think he's gone,so we might be safe from any projectile ejaculate!

(just to be safe,could someone page Mr.Canada and have him bring the film crew to the Federal Politics board?....Thanks)

Here you go,Lictor....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Cameroon

Check out those two crossed thingy's in the back!!!

EVERYONE.....

TAKE COVER!!!!!!!!!!!!

Keep your head low and your ass up so lick thor can lic it.

[Yesterday]

Third World Debt & Foreign Aid

Third World Debt: $2000 billion (up from $100 billion 30 years ago) (UN's World Development Report)

¶ Debt Payments Flowing from the Poor to the Rich Countries: approx 1400 billion (from 1960 to 1993)

¶ Foreign Aid Flowing from the Rich to the Poor Countries: approx 140 billion (from 1960 to 1993)

Percentage of Foreign Aid that Reaches the Poor in the Poor Countries: approx 5 %

Foreign Aid Given by Canada as a Percentage of GDP: .29 % (.09 % for U.S.)

Distribution of World Income (UN Human Development Report)

¶ Richest 20 percent of the World's Population: 85 % (up from 75 % over the past 30 years)

¶ Poorest 20 percent of the World's Population: 1.4 % (down from 2.3 % over the past 30 years)

Annual Cost of Alleviating Poverty (UN Human Development Program)

For Food, Clean water, Clothes, Education, Health Care & Sanitation for 4.4 billion people: $60 billion

For Food and Basic Health Care for 4.4 billion people: $19.5 billion

What Americans and Europeans spend annually on pet food: $25 billion (for comparison)

http://www.basicincome.com/basic_gendata.htm

[ToadBrother]

lol you remind me of micheal jackson in that southpark episode: "naaah, dats ignarant... noooo, that's igna-ant"...

That's because you're an idiot.

why is looking at race as a manifestation of clusters of human genes (clines) a manifestation of ignorance...

Well, for a start, the people you so Victorianly call the "bushmen" are, from a genetic point of view, a very distinct population from surrounding Bantu-speakers. Morphologically, if there is a biological notion of race that is useful, you might as well call them a distinct race. Linguistically, they are pretty much unrelated to anyone around them, and even within the various groups that use the so-called "click" languages, the languages seem to have only a cursory relationship. Genetically, they are more distant from the neighboring populations than the neighboring populations (mainly Bantu speakers) are from the Japanese or even Aborigines of Australia. They are one of the most genetically distinct group of humans in the world.

Because you're just an intellectual lightweight, you just sort of look at a few morphological traits, assume the "bushmen" are negroes, like the populations around them.

Edited June 9, 2010 by ToadBrother

[Jack Weber]

Keep your head low and your ass up so lick thor can lic it.

Uh....

Not into the dudes,dude....

[William Ashley]

http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/06/08/canada-un-millenium-development-goals.html

They say that during a global recession, the developing countries are affected the most. I believe it. 14th among 23 developed countries in GDP spent on foreign aid, that isn't very good. I think we are still at 0.33% of GDP towards aid.

Although it hurts to say it, I applaud the Conservatives on Freezing foreign aid. I am someone who feels that foreign business is advisable over aid. Ex. With Bush and Clintons program for Haiti - to help fund business development. Although I think it should go a step further - the Government Ought to not only encourage viable private business operations, but also create a Foreign Development Crown Corporation to replace CIDA and other aid streams. The only exception to this is annexation of foreign territories. Ex. say there is a really poor african country like South Sudan - it could ceed itself to Canada, and become a new province, then we would develope and provide services as though, as it would be, an internal civil administrative zone of Canada.

Just giving money away is no better than buying peoples support. It is far better to employ people to grow food, and feed them, then it is just to feed them. Canada has the intelligence to not only provide foreign aid at cost of Canada but help develop foreign economies by taking partial ownership and operations of those territories.

It would be great if Canada became one of the leaders in area of development. We have a lot of bright minds in this country that can help continue to try and help discover better ways to tackle this monumental problem. I suppose monumental is an understatement.

It is very simple HUMAN RESOURCE + NATURAL RESOURCE = DEVELOPMENT.

IF YOU DON'T DEVELOPE AND UTILIZE BOTH, YOU WON'T SECURE GROWTH OF DEVELOPMENT.

[Borg]

http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/06/08/canada-un-millenium-development-goals.html

They say that during a global recession, the developing countries are affected the most. I believe it. 14th among 23 developed countries in GDP spent on foreign aid, that isn't very good. I think we are still at 0.33% of GDP towards aid.

It would be great if Canada became one of the leaders in area of development. We have a lot of bright minds in this country that can help continue to try and help discover better ways to tackle this monumental problem. I suppose monumental is an understatement.

Personally I would prefer to see Canada give NO aide to any country. We have enough problems here and we could better use it here than line the pockets of despots who keep most of it for themselves.

Borg

[Bonam]

Personally I would prefer to see Canada give NO aide to any country. We have enough problems here and we could better use it here than line the pockets of despots who keep most of it for themselves.

Hear hear

[Machjo]

You're right. But then why did we promise to give 0.7%? Pretty sure we're going to miss that by the 2015 target. All the Millenium Development Goals sounds great on paper and countries just sign on like its nothing, then forget about. Pretty typical.

Good point. If we promise it, we give it. If we don't want to give it, then don't promise it.

That said, if it were me, I'd not have promised it in the first place, and instead turned to more deregulation to help the poor. Examples could include more free trade for instance, rather than monetary help.

Now as for that promise, we ought to either keep it or take our name off that agreement. This is one thing that frustrates me, where governments will sign all these feel good international agreements and then not lvie up to them. Either don't sign them, or live up to them. Take you pick, but have some backbone either way.