The Pros and Cons of Canadas Foreign Aid

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The Pros and Consof Canadas Foreign Aid
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Pros

• Support development and reduce poverty.
• Makes for a more secure world.
• Develops good relations with other countries.
• Hopefully they will return the favour.

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• Enhances foreign trade. Aid creates jobs in the
  receiving country. Those people spend money,
  hopefully on Canadian goods.
• A lot of aid is tied aid receiving country
  must spend the money in Canada.
• Therefore helps Canadians a form of government
  aid to industry.

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• Develops military alliances.
• Its the right thing to do. Reduces human
  suffering.

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Cons

• A burden on taxpayers taxes high enough.
• A lot of foreign loans never get repaid.
• This just causes the receiving country to be even
  more poor as it tries to pay the loans off.
• Creates dependency, not independence.

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• Sometimes foreign aid gets spent in the wrong
  areas the military and not on the poor.
• Have to be careful that aid does not create
  bitterness or enemies by helping one country and
  not another.
• A lot of problems still in Canada (eg., Native
  communities) so why spend hard earned taxpayers
  dollars in another country.