Hilfsorganisationen sagen, dass die Kürzungen der kanadischen Hilfe in globalen Krisengebieten tiefgreifende Auswirkungen haben werden

Unfortunately, our CoL and associated QoL issues require prioritization. Canadians, particularly our youth and economically vulnerable, need prioritization. That will be the defining economic and political reality for the foreseeable future.

Prior generations, capitulating to neoliberal economics, have pulled up the ladder behind them. In part, by globalizing our trade networks. We’ve offshored production for pesos on the dollar, while importing scab labour when we demanded more during the pandemic. Now we have a low-paying service economy, staffed by temp residents versus our own fellow citizens. Immigration has been exploited as an economic lever to lift us our of technical recession, all the while inflicting recession-like declines upon us on a per-capita basis.

I don’t see an alternative to focusing inward unless we first pivot and focus entirely on rebuilding our domestic industries and infrastructure. Something that actually produces – and distributes – wealth faster than our population grows. Even then, we’ll likely never return to the level of QoL experienced by the boomers, despite our increased per capita productivity. So, we will have less social capacity and less social will to embrace foreign aid.

This is exactly the same reason that our Overton Window is shifting on the environmental front and immigration. We’re not ready to make personal concessions that weren’t necessary in years previous. Nor should we have to, frankly. Our social contract has been abused by consecutive governments at the behest of greedy industry. No, friends, it will never ‚trickle down‘. We were sold a basket of lies. Delay, deny, defund was always the intent.

Now, our discontent is growing and our focus has shifted to restoring that which has been lost. Hopefully, our youth become activated and agitate for their due. We’re seeing it elsewhere, globally. But I fear that we’ve become adequately pacified and numbed that the economic exploitations of Canadians will never be addressed.

I support foreign aid but it doesn’t take much research to question the value and ROI of a lot of the foreign aid programs we have funded over the last 10 years.

I would like to see more focus on foreign aid that can directly be tied to increased international trade and long term benefit to Canadians. This can still include charitable work and nation building.

It’s a pretty hard sell to make cuts domestically and not also cut foreign expenses in a budget, so I’m not surprised this government is trimming something here.

I wish the article would tell us whether the cuts will include gender just rice in Vietnam. That story has certainly turned a lot of heads lately.

Frankly a lot of aid won’t fix the problems these areas are facing because they’re facing issues related to carrying capacity.