- John Ivison: Being poor doesn't cut it any more
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Rock stars make fickle bedfellows for politicians, as Paul Martin could testify. One minute Bono was attending his coronation as prime minister and Bob Geldof was calling him “dude”; the next they were urging every fairy from Cork to Dunleary to curse him for his failure to increase the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of GDP.
The Conservatives are less dazzled by celebrity. Bev Oda, the Minister of International Co-operation, is not even attempting to curry favour with the U2 singer or the former Boomtown Rat. In a speech at the University of Toronto’s Munk Centre yesterday, Ms. Oda delivered what Conservatives have billed as the “clearest articulation of aid policy in 20 years”.
She was blunt from the outset: “What I will talk about is not something that aims to please Irish rock stars.”
The goal is simple - how to make Canada’s $5-billion aid budget work better.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
How Fewer hildren Have Died From Hunger Since Live-Aid
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- I lean to the right but I still have a heart and if I have a mission it is to respond to attacks on people not available to protect themselves and to point out the hypocrisy of the left at every opportunity.MY MAJOR GOAL IS HIGHLIGHT THE HYPOCRISY AND STUPIDITY OF THE LEFTISTS ON TORONTO CITY COUNCIL. Last word: In the final analysis this blog is a relief valve for my rants/raves.
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