Why Are We Laggards?

Possibly because we have, and continue to lose, more and more of our manufacturing jobs to eastern and southern Asia.......

Rich sitting out war on poverty TheStar.com - comment - Rich sitting out war on poverty

July 11, 2007

Carol Goar

Contrary to popular belief, we are making headway in the fight against global poverty.

Contrary to what many of us would like to believe, Canada and its rich peers have very little to do with it.

Those are the principal findings of a newly released United Nations report that marks the midway point in its millennial drive "to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty."

Canada was one of the 191 nations that signed the Millennium Declaration in September of 2000, pledging to halve the proportion of the human race living on less than $1 a day by 2015.

Today, we – along with the United States, Japan and Australia – rank as global laggards.