Terrorism in the Middle East and Africa and NSI

NSI: The daily dose of news Ebola in West Africa, the rising incidence of terrorism in the Middle East and Africa, the millions of immigrants and refugees fleeing bad governance and poverty is graphically symptomatic of ill-conceived and inadequate support for solving todays international development challenges, according to Globe and Mail. The closing of NSI constitutes the jettisoning of a critically important tool of Canadian leadership internationally, exercised not through Canadian military or economic might, but rather through our capacity to generate and globally disseminate knowledge and best-practice alternatives. In 2011, 2012 and 2013, NSI was internationally recognized as the worlds leading development policy think-tank with an annual budget of less than $3-million and The recent closing of the North-South Institute as a result of discontinued federal government funding is a loss both for Canada and for the global community. Amongst the major aid donors, Canadas current government has been a significant contributor to that inadequacy. Canadas aid levels are now amongst the lowest of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development donors at about 0.2 per cent of national income. And to follow this up with the progressive dismantling of the former and other publicly funded development institutions, such as Rights and Democracy, is beyond comprehension. This reduced support suggests a failure to grasp the significance of todays threats to global stability and to Canadas long-term economic and social well-being. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.