A great land and her name is Canada
By Jeremy Bradley
Tuesday June 6, 2006
Billions of dollars to fight poverty in Africa. Millions of dollars in sponsorship scandal money. Hundreds of thousands of dollars for Quebec's Canada Day celebrations. But still people in this country go hungry. People in this country are homeless. People in this country can't make it on their own.
Canada has always been viewed as a helpful nation. That's a step up from our neighbours down south. We are not known for bombing and killing people. And I think we can agree that we would like to keep it that way. But through these generous financial contributions from our federal government, perhaps it is their way of trying to make us forget about the problems in our own neighbourhoods and seem as though we really are the good guy in the face of poverty and despair.
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