Globe and Mail Article

Exerpt from "Millenium Man", The Globe and Mail, Saturday March 11


But Prof. Sachs said the real onus is on donor countries. He heaps scorn on Canada, for the failure to meet 0.7, and on the Group of Eight industrial countries in general, which he said outright lie about their commitments to ending poverty, making huge pledges at summits and refusing to pony up any of the money.

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"There's no such thing as a culture that doesn't care about their children and want them to be healthy. The idea that somehow the poor have themselves to blame and there's nothing we can do. . . . We got on the wrong track actually, and we never understood that there were things we could do with a little confidence in each other."

There is something that we can do as Canadians; Lead the way to 0.7%, with a 'little confidence' that our government will do the same.

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