Prime Minister Stephen Harper: Assisted Immigrants

Homegrown Products Dept: And no one knows why. I mean, they do. Obviously, the Conservatives took a dislike to someone or something. The program was run by the Canadian International Development Agency and the Canadian Teachers Federation the national teachers union . The teachers were the bedrock, the talented generous people who travelled to Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, anywhere the education system needed a helping hand. The first Canadian teachers headed over to Nigeria in 1962. Since then, at least 1.4 million students and teachers have received Canadian help in the crowded, neglected, paper- and pencil-hoarding, book-hungry classrooms of the Third World, according to The Star. This act of destruction is classic Harper stuff, a real puppy-kicker. It s like the December announcement that Ottawa would cease funding 10 immigrant services agencies in Greater Toronto. These small offices assisted immigrants in specific, particular ways, helping them find jobs, for instance, and showing them how to integrate into Canadian society rather than hiding fearfully at home and no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers. You re done. School has been cancelled for one of Canada s greatest homegrown products, the volunteer teaching corps that CIDA has been sending overseas for the past 50 years. The countries Canada helped included Malawi, Uganda, India, Sierra Leone and, yes, Haiti, a country that Prime Minister Stephen Harper has always made a big public show of wishing to help. As reported in the news.
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