Don Cherry on Haiti

Don Cherry calls $50-million in aid to beleaguered country ‘nuts’



After Don Cherry on Monday questioned the merit of Canadian aid to Haiti, Canada’s aid agency outlined the successes of its $1-billion in assistance since 2006 but at the same time defended its decision to review long-term aid for the Caribbean nation saying Ottawa’s funding “will not be a blank cheque.”

In a statement to be posted to the Canadian International Development Agency on Tuesday afternoon, Minister Julian Fantino said Canada “should not take gratification in the simple transaction of international aid” and said “progress toward a self-sustaining Haitian society has been limited.”

Although the statement outlines key aid successes — ensuring 1.9 million children were vaccinated against polio, measles and rubella, and helping three million Haitians access free healthcare — the agency appears to take issue with the country’s long-term ability to take care of its own people and someday wean off the international dole.


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“Our government has a responsibility to maximize the value of Canadian taxpayer dollars,” Mr. Fantino said. “Canada’s assistance will not be a blank cheque. We expect accountability, we expect transparency, and we expect tangible results for those most in need.”

The public dose of tough love for Canada’s top aid recipient comes just a day after Mr. Cherry, the CBC’s high-profile hockey commentator, stirred debate on Twitter when he suggested Ottawa was “nuts” for providing Haiti with $49.5 million last year.

“We nickel and dime our doctors, nurses and veterans plus a million other service,” he wrote. “Yet we can send almost 50 million to Haiti.”


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I have subscribed to Don Cherry's twitter and I expect many mindbending chuckles . he definitely speaks his mind

I would respect Haitians' views on hockey more than Cherry's views on Haiti.

The fact is Cherry is not all that wrong. After all the money spent in that country there is
little or nothing to show for it sort of like Attawapiskat. There is little or nothing in the way
of housing, or urban renewal and the people for the most part are still living in tents and
we keep pouring money into a political and social sink hole because we are afraid to
demand accountability.
If the people of Haiti or the affluent nations of the world are going to see anything done a
commission of accountability must oversee the priorities and spending on improvements
to get this place at least functional again.

Cherry is an imbecile and his opinion is not relevant. Besides that, who can take anyone serious who dresses like him. What an ***.

Locutus: You must be loosing your touch.....you only caught two.........so far.....

When it comes to Don Cherry one must learn to choose carefully what one listens to and absorbs.

Yes, that's right, you need to cherry pick Cherry.

In fact, that's where the term 'cherry pick' comes from, God's honest. I wouldn't make that up.

Cherry's ok. He's entertaining.

You mean Locutus is trolling for the intelligent? Surely he's caught more than two; and, why the modesty?

So, the $50 million dollar question then is:

Why do our political leaders allow money to be spent in such a fashion?

If my company hires a contract research organization, they have to follow our reporting guidelines, they have to be audited before-hand, they have to be transparent with results. Ultimately they are responsible for holding up their end of the agreement, but we are accountable for what takes place. Responsibility can be delegated, accountability cannot.

You enjoy your Clementianna mirror??

You see DaS, you should have counted yourself in. Let me fix it for you...
"Locutus: You are not losing your touch.....you caught at least three.........so far"

The difficulty with western aid in general is the wording. Of course it's not aid it's suppression. You don't aid the natives to compete for their own resources. What kind of stupid empire or corporation would ever actually do such a thing. The notion that it could or would be aid defies concrete fact known and applied for thousands of years with decent returns for the stakeholders and destitutions and degradations for the natives.Poverty disease war ignorance which of these has been aided out of existence. Western aid never existed.