Canadian aid group takes sides

Canadian NGOs (Non-government organizations, the lucrative relief/aid/grief industry) are refusing to go to Afghanistan and are taking sides.

Canada's NGOs, which have traditionally worked in partnership with CIDA for development work overseas, are balking at the idea of being allied, or perceived to be allied, with armed troops, who are quite clearly on the side of the Afghan central government and opposed to the Taliban and Al Qaeda insurgents.

Not too surprising actually. Some 100 NGOs depend upon CIDA for handouts. CIDA (Canadian Council for International Co-operation) is a Canadian federal agency that administers 80% of Canada's foreign aid budget. CIDA has a bizarre set of goals, and these are not alphabetical. They are as they appear on the first page of their web site.

Generally the 10 broad themes of In Common, but over the past two to three years, the specific themes have been globalization, corporate social responsibility, debt, and aid.
The 10 broad themes of In Common are:
Promoting Sustainable Development
Upholding Human Rights
Creating an Equitable Global Economic Order
Achieving Gender Equity
Improving the Lives of Children
Building Peace
Promoting Global Food Security
Promoting Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility
Reinvesting in Canada's Foreign Aid Program
Creating New Opportunities for Citizen Participation

Citizen participation is, naturally, bottom of the list. No surprise there. But even CIDA surely has better sense than admitting "Gender Equity" is more important than the "Lives of Children." But, maybe not, the Liberal party never seems to mind the U.N. aid worker exploitation of children. And they, unlike the media, have no problem acknowledging their interwining interests.

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Even their Millenium Project goals rates reducing child mortality beneath gender equity.

We can only cheer their decision to stay out of Afghanistan. That country has it's share of problems already without self-important, money-grubbing lefties distorting their recovery.