Canada should offer more assistance to world’s poor
By Letter to the Editor on October 27, 2018.
A recent report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development shows that despite Trudeau’s rhetoric, Canadian aid to the world’s poor has fallen to the lowest in a generation. Many support this, believing we need to help our own citizens first. But there is no recognized morality that says the accident of birth location determines if a person is deserving of the necessities of life. We have needs in Canada, yes, but the desperate needs of the world’s poorest lay a claim greater than any of us lucky enough to be born in Canada Tracy Koebel Brentwood Bay 6-5
