Foreign Aid –
Transparency and
Accountability – July
2018
By: Paul Young, CPA, CGA
Date: July 12 2018
Paul Young - Bio
• CPA, CGA
• Financial Solutions
• SME – Risk Management
• SME – Close, Consolidate and Reporting
• SME – Emerging Technology
• SME – Public Policy
• SME – Economic and Business
Indicators
• SME – Financial Solutions
• SME – Supply Chain Management
• SME – Business Strategy and
Restructuring
Contact information:
Paul_Young_CGA@Hotmail.com
Disclaimer
• This presentation is one opinion of Foreign Aid
Agenda
• What is Foreign Aid
• UN and Foreign Aid
• Canada and Foreign Aid
• Corruption Index
• Budget
• Foreign Aid by Country
• Key Countries/Issues
• North Korean and Africa
• Transparency/USA
• Transparency/Canada
• Canada and Foreign Aid
• UN/Oversight Foreign Aid
• Blog – Foreign Aid
What is Foreign Aid?
• economic, technical, or military aid given by one nation to another for
purposes of relief and rehabilitation, for economic stabilization, or for
mutual defense.
UN and Foreign Aid
• Foreign aid or (development assistance) is often regarded as being too much, or wasted on corrupt recipient
governments despite any good intentions from donor countries. In reality, both the quantity and quality of
aid have been poor and donor nations have not been held to account.
• There are numerous forms of aid, from humanitarian emergency assistance, to food aid, military assistance,
etc. Development aid has long been recognized as crucial to help poor developing nations grow out of
poverty.
• In 1970, the world’s rich countries agreed to give 0.7% of their GNI (Gross National Income) as official
international development aid, annually. Since that time, despite billions given each year, rich nations have
rarely met their actual promised targets. For example, the US is often the largest donor in dollar terms, but
ranks amongst the lowest in terms of meeting the stated 0.7% target.
• Furthermore, aid has often come with a price of its own for the developing nations:
– Aid is often wasted on conditions that the recipient must use overpriced goods and services from donor
countries
– Most aid does not actually go to the poorest who would need it the most
– Aid amounts are dwarfed by rich country protectionism that denies market access for poor country
products, while rich nations use aid as a lever to open poor country markets to their products
– Large projects or massive grand strategies often fail to help the vulnerable as money can often be
embezzled away
Oversight / UK view
• Foreign aid contractors that make huge profits and spend taxpayers' money on lavish salaries will be named and shamed for the first time
under Government plans.
• Priti Patel, the International Development Secretary, has written to all her department's suppliers, demanding that they in future "deliver value
for money" for taxpayers.
• That will include giving a detailed breakdown of employees' salaries as well as profits being made by the company as a result of its contract
with the foreign aid department.
• Senior Conservatives are demanding that Theresa May reviews the Government's legal commitment to spend 0.7 per cent of GDP annually on
foreign aid. Britain currently spends more than £12billion annually on foreign aid.
• David Miliband, the former Labour MP who is now president of the US-based International Rescue Committee, receives £530,922. His charity
has been given £3.6m in British aid.
• Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the former Danish Prime Minister who is now head of Save the Children, receives a pay and pension package worth
£246,750 a year.
• The organisation was last year given aid contracts worth £104million by Dfid. In recent days it has also emerged that Britain gave £1.3billion in
foreign aid to help people in the 20 most corrupt countries in the world in 2015, research claims.
• Analysis of an annual index of global corruption compiled by the respected organisation Transparency International has shown the UK's
spending on corrupt countries has increased from just over £1 billion last year. Aid rose by more than 50 per cent in Afghanistan to £300
million and by 11 per cent in Nigeria to £263 million
• Source - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/25/foreign-aid-contractors-do-not-deliver-value-money-named-shamed/
Corruption Index
LPC / Foreign Aid
Source - https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2017/06/12/the-trudeau-
government-falls-short-on-foreign-aid-editorial.html
Foreign Aid / Canada
Source - https://globalnews.ca/news/2718195/canada-offers-331-5m-in-global-humanitarian-
aid-at-summit-in-istanbul/
International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau has announced an additional
$331.5 million in humanitarian aid at the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, Turkey.
Bibeau says in a statement Tuesday that the new funding will help the most vulnerable in
more than 32 countries.
Those who will receive the funding include United Nations humanitarian agencies, the Red
Cross and non-governmental organizations, as well as Canadian organizations.
Today’s announcement was made on the final day of the summit.
On Monday, Bibeau announced $274 million in humanitarian and development aid that
focused on emergency response, child protection and food security.
Liberal Party of Canada and Conservative
Party of Canada – Foreign Aid
• Source - https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/trudeau-
taking-foreign-policy-cue-from-tory-
playbook/article34241539/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com&
Globe & Mail – March 8, 2017
Budget 2015/2016 – Canada
Canada and Foreign Aid
Foreign Aid by Country
Foreign Aid - Haiti
Foreign Aid - Hamas
Canada Foreign Aid
Foreign Aid - Mali
Namibia
Source = http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/22/africa/north-korea-
africa/index.html?sr=twCNN102317north-korea-africa1153AMVODtop
Heroes' Acre looms on a hill overlooking Windhoek, Namibia's tidy capital.
Under a brilliant blue sky, a series of granite steps slope upwards in a wedge toward a triumphant bronze
statue of an unknown soldier.
In one hand the liberation-struggle soldier carries a Kalashnikov rifle. In the other, he's throwing what
looks like a Soviet-era stick grenade.
The communist-style design is no coincidence. Heroes' Acre was built by a North Korean firm.
African countries and North Korea
Source = http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/22/africa/north-korea-
africa/index.html?sr=twCNN102317north-korea-africa1153AMVODtop
USA/ Transparency
Source - https://www.devex.com/news/us-congress-approves-
long-sought-foreign-aid-transparency-and-accountability-act-88392
Transparency/Canada
• Source - http://www.mcleodgroup.ca/2016/06/29/opaque-transparency-in-canadas-
foreign-aid/
UN/Foreign Aid
• Source - https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/75938/un-ambassador-danon-launches-battle-block-aid-money-hamas/
USA/Trump and Foreign Aid
• http://www.humanosphere.org/world-politics/2017/05/trumps-foreign-aid-cuts-pose-threat-to-development-in-latin-america/
The proposed budget cuts for the 2018 fiscal year would slash current
foreign aid funding (which makes up less than 1 percent of the budget)
by one-third. If the cuts are approved by Congress, U.S. funds for foreign
assistance would reach levels not seen since the 1970s and 1990s.
Foreign policy experts warn that the cuts would be felt deeply by countries
across Latin America and the Caribbean. In 2016, the United States
provided more than $1 billion in development aid to countries in the
Western Hemisphere. The draft budget seeks to reduce that figure by
almost 40 percent, zeroing out funding for development programs in the
region’s most economically stressed countries – El Salvador, Guatemala,
Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Brazil, Paraguay and Peru, among others.
UN and Foreign Aid
• http://news.nationalpost.com/opinion/geoffrey-clarfield-the-united-nations-is-losing-
staggering-sums-to-corruption-mismanagement-and-bad-decision-making
National Post – June 15, 2017
Palestine and Funding
Source - http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/266645/palestinian-authority-boss-refuses-stop-funding-daniel-greenfield
The Palestinian Authority provides salaries to convicted terrorists and
to the families of dead terrorists, including Hamas. A sizable portion of
the PA budget, which is funded by foreign aid, a lot of it coming from
us, goes to funding terrorism.
The PA has made it very clear that it will go on funding terrorism. Abbas
shouldn't have been rewarded with a trip to meet with Trump until he
committed to ending those payments. There should be no talk of further
negotiations until the PA stops funding terrorism.
The Islamic terror funded by the Palestinian Authority and Abbas hasn't
just killed Israelis or even just American Jews, but Americans who
happened to be there when a terrorist struck.
PM – Justin Trudeau / Foreign Aid
Source - https://www.spencerfernando.com/2017/05/25/globalist-trudeau-gives-billions-foreign-aid-53-reserves-lack-real-fire-protection/
Spencer Fernando – May 25, 2017
Canada and Foreign Aid
• Source - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38573559
Ottawa came less than halfway to meeting international spending benchmarks in those areas.
The Global Canada study uses those two funding areas to measure a country's global engagement.
The analysis also suggests Canada's level of spending on international assistance as a share of GDP
is close to an all-time low.
Mr Trudeau made "Canada is back" a catchphrase after winning the federal election in 2015 and
promised a new era of global engagement.
Global Canada founder Robert Greenhill, a former president of the federal development agency, said
that Canada is not back, it is "far back".
"We actually don't believe in doing our fair share at this point," he said.
Blog – Foreign Aid
• UN does little to enforce oversight when it comes to foreign aid – Here are a few examples:
• The United Nations is losing staggering sums to corruption, mismanagement and bad
decision-making ” http://nationalpost.com/opinion/geoffrey-clarfield-the-united-nations-is-
losing-staggering-sums-to-corruption-mismanagement-and-bad-decision-making “
• UN and corruption - https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/how-corrupt-is-the-
united-nations/
• “The cost of corruption to society is enormous. In its 2017 report, Global Financial Integrity
estimates that illicit financial flows (IFFs) in 2014 alone ranged from US$1.4 trillion to $2.5 trillion.
The World Economic Forum estimates that the cost of corruption today equals more than 5
percent of global GDP ($2.6
trillion).”http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/blog/2017/fighting-corruption-for-
global-peace--development-and-security.html
• Hamas/Foreign Aid - http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/en/21183/
• Somalia - https://fee.org/articles/how-foreign-aid-hurts-famine-relief-in-somalia/
Summary:
• The bottom line is the UN has failed to ensure foreign aid is getting to the most needed people in
the world
Alexandre Trudeau
(Justin Trudeau’s
Brother
http://www.neveragaincanada.ca/justin-trudeaus-brother-and-
political-advisor-works-with-iran-to-help-its-nuclear-program/
Alexandre Trudeau, son of late Prime Minister Pierre
Trudeau, and brother and senior political adviser to Liberal
leadership candidate Justin, has been working with the
Iranian government to create propaganda to whitewash its
nuclear arms program.
PressTV, the Iranian state-owned propaganda organ, was a
co-producer of the documentary The New Great
Game,which was produced and directed by Alexandre
Trudeau. According to Honest Reporting Canada Executive
Director Mike Fegelman, in the film, the Liberal MP’s
brother “reports that Iran’s atomic ambitions are for
“defensive” purposes only,serving as an effective
“deterrent” against Israeli”aggression” and belligerence
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/130219/Iran-Canada-to-hold-meeting-at-expert-level
Iran's foreign ministry spokesman said on Wednesday that Canada and Iran will hold another meeting at expert level to discuss consular services to
Iranian citizens and Canadians in both Tehran and Canada adding “the first step will be the establishment of an embassy’s foreign interest section.”
Bahram Ghasemi, Iran Foreign Ministry Spokesman said that given the new developments in today’s world and the Canadian government readiness,
they can take more steps in that regard.
Ghasemi hoped for better relations between the two countries, saying “we hope that the Canadian Government now sees Iran's effective role in
combating terrorism and stabilizing the region, and considers Iranians’ effective presence in Canada, as a highly educated community,” adding “we ca
take more steps to improve bilateral relations.”
1. Trudeau’s brother has visited Iran many times including making a documentary - http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/mike-fegelman/alexandre-trudeau_b_2018038.html
2. Both Israel and Saudi Arabia have voiced concerns about Iran, especially their nuclear weapons capability - https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/17/israel-and-saudi-arabia-
forging-ties-could-mean-war-with-iran-commentary.html
3. Most people that applied for refugee status from a country do not go back and visit it - http://torontosun.com/2016/10/21/monsef-visit-to-iran-raises-
questions/wcm/335019b0-be60-4c04-8d75-3120bac628c9 (Maryam Monsef went back to Iran in 2014)
4. Omer Alghabra met with Iranian officials - http://www.iccongress.ca/tags/omar_alghabra . Omer is key member of Trudeau’s foreign affairs team -
http://torontosun.com/2017/07/12/when-canada-meets-with-the-islamic-world-whos-calling-the-shots/wcm/ae7a2db4-4b36-4cef-958f-d4c224d74471. It also appears tha
Omar has direct ties to Syria - https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/syrian-canadian-mp-omar-alghabras-story-is-one-shared-by-millions/article37464252/
5. Trump de-certified the nuclear deal with Iran - http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/10/13/trump-iran-strategy-full-speech.cnn
Iran and Russia back Assad - http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/04/russia-iran-vow-continued-military-support-assad-170408184313230.html
Saudi Arabia and Iran are feuding over the middle east - https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/20/saudi-arabia-and-irans-conflict-in-yemen.html
Iran won a UN seat on Women’s right council https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/25/iran-wins-seat-un-body-presses-womens-rights/ -
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/29/world/middleeast/iran-saudi-women.html?mtrref=www.google.ca&gwh=BC701760FA51B20292CBB007835C4FDB&gwt=pay
6. Trudeau calls himself a feminist - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/justin-trudeau-men-feminist-movement-stick-up-women-sexism-canada-prime-
minister-a7960196.html. Yet Trudeau says little about countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran when it comes to women’s right
7. USA and NATO on Iran - https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/06/nato-warn-son-us-approach-to-iran-terror-threat-and-nuclear-compliance.html. I would suspect that Trump w
get hard with NATO in terms of funding. USA is big contributor to NATO.
Blog - Iran
Millionaires /UN
Source - http://nationalpost.com/opinion/geoffrey-clarfield-the-united-nations-is-
losing-staggering-sums-to-corruption-mismanagement-and-bad-decision-making
Bottom Line
• Foreign aid is not getting to people.
https://globalnews.ca/news/2718195/canada-offers-331-5m-in-
global-humanitarian-aid-at-summit-in-istanbul/
• We need to help people that is role of the UN, but UN needs to
clean up corruption within its’ agencies as well as put into place
more oversight to ensure the moneys is getting to programs that
support food, water management and Medicine
• Charitable Agencies need to face more scrutiny to ensure moneys
are not tied up with administration -
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-
way/2017/08/30/547435136/red-cross-exec-doesn-t-know-
what-portion-of-donations-will-go-directly-to-harvey

Foreign aid - Accountability and Transparency - July 2018

  • 1.
    Foreign Aid – Transparencyand Accountability – July 2018 By: Paul Young, CPA, CGA Date: July 12 2018
  • 2.
    Paul Young -Bio • CPA, CGA • Financial Solutions • SME – Risk Management • SME – Close, Consolidate and Reporting • SME – Emerging Technology • SME – Public Policy • SME – Economic and Business Indicators • SME – Financial Solutions • SME – Supply Chain Management • SME – Business Strategy and Restructuring Contact information: [email protected]
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    Disclaimer • This presentationis one opinion of Foreign Aid
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    Agenda • What isForeign Aid • UN and Foreign Aid • Canada and Foreign Aid • Corruption Index • Budget • Foreign Aid by Country • Key Countries/Issues • North Korean and Africa • Transparency/USA • Transparency/Canada • Canada and Foreign Aid • UN/Oversight Foreign Aid • Blog – Foreign Aid
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    What is ForeignAid? • economic, technical, or military aid given by one nation to another for purposes of relief and rehabilitation, for economic stabilization, or for mutual defense.
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    UN and ForeignAid • Foreign aid or (development assistance) is often regarded as being too much, or wasted on corrupt recipient governments despite any good intentions from donor countries. In reality, both the quantity and quality of aid have been poor and donor nations have not been held to account. • There are numerous forms of aid, from humanitarian emergency assistance, to food aid, military assistance, etc. Development aid has long been recognized as crucial to help poor developing nations grow out of poverty. • In 1970, the world’s rich countries agreed to give 0.7% of their GNI (Gross National Income) as official international development aid, annually. Since that time, despite billions given each year, rich nations have rarely met their actual promised targets. For example, the US is often the largest donor in dollar terms, but ranks amongst the lowest in terms of meeting the stated 0.7% target. • Furthermore, aid has often come with a price of its own for the developing nations: – Aid is often wasted on conditions that the recipient must use overpriced goods and services from donor countries – Most aid does not actually go to the poorest who would need it the most – Aid amounts are dwarfed by rich country protectionism that denies market access for poor country products, while rich nations use aid as a lever to open poor country markets to their products – Large projects or massive grand strategies often fail to help the vulnerable as money can often be embezzled away
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    Oversight / UKview • Foreign aid contractors that make huge profits and spend taxpayers' money on lavish salaries will be named and shamed for the first time under Government plans. • Priti Patel, the International Development Secretary, has written to all her department's suppliers, demanding that they in future "deliver value for money" for taxpayers. • That will include giving a detailed breakdown of employees' salaries as well as profits being made by the company as a result of its contract with the foreign aid department. • Senior Conservatives are demanding that Theresa May reviews the Government's legal commitment to spend 0.7 per cent of GDP annually on foreign aid. Britain currently spends more than £12billion annually on foreign aid. • David Miliband, the former Labour MP who is now president of the US-based International Rescue Committee, receives £530,922. His charity has been given £3.6m in British aid. • Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the former Danish Prime Minister who is now head of Save the Children, receives a pay and pension package worth £246,750 a year. • The organisation was last year given aid contracts worth £104million by Dfid. In recent days it has also emerged that Britain gave £1.3billion in foreign aid to help people in the 20 most corrupt countries in the world in 2015, research claims. • Analysis of an annual index of global corruption compiled by the respected organisation Transparency International has shown the UK's spending on corrupt countries has increased from just over £1 billion last year. Aid rose by more than 50 per cent in Afghanistan to £300 million and by 11 per cent in Nigeria to £263 million • Source - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/25/foreign-aid-contractors-do-not-deliver-value-money-named-shamed/
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    LPC / ForeignAid Source - https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2017/06/12/the-trudeau- government-falls-short-on-foreign-aid-editorial.html
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    Foreign Aid /Canada Source - https://globalnews.ca/news/2718195/canada-offers-331-5m-in-global-humanitarian- aid-at-summit-in-istanbul/ International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau has announced an additional $331.5 million in humanitarian aid at the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, Turkey. Bibeau says in a statement Tuesday that the new funding will help the most vulnerable in more than 32 countries. Those who will receive the funding include United Nations humanitarian agencies, the Red Cross and non-governmental organizations, as well as Canadian organizations. Today’s announcement was made on the final day of the summit. On Monday, Bibeau announced $274 million in humanitarian and development aid that focused on emergency response, child protection and food security.
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    Liberal Party ofCanada and Conservative Party of Canada – Foreign Aid • Source - https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/trudeau- taking-foreign-policy-cue-from-tory- playbook/article34241539/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com& Globe & Mail – March 8, 2017
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    Foreign Aid -Hamas Canada Foreign Aid
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    Namibia Source = http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/22/africa/north-korea- africa/index.html?sr=twCNN102317north-korea-africa1153AMVODtop Heroes'Acre looms on a hill overlooking Windhoek, Namibia's tidy capital. Under a brilliant blue sky, a series of granite steps slope upwards in a wedge toward a triumphant bronze statue of an unknown soldier. In one hand the liberation-struggle soldier carries a Kalashnikov rifle. In the other, he's throwing what looks like a Soviet-era stick grenade. The communist-style design is no coincidence. Heroes' Acre was built by a North Korean firm.
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    African countries andNorth Korea Source = http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/22/africa/north-korea- africa/index.html?sr=twCNN102317north-korea-africa1153AMVODtop
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    USA/ Transparency Source -https://www.devex.com/news/us-congress-approves- long-sought-foreign-aid-transparency-and-accountability-act-88392
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    Transparency/Canada • Source -http://www.mcleodgroup.ca/2016/06/29/opaque-transparency-in-canadas- foreign-aid/
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    UN/Foreign Aid • Source- https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/75938/un-ambassador-danon-launches-battle-block-aid-money-hamas/
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    USA/Trump and ForeignAid • http://www.humanosphere.org/world-politics/2017/05/trumps-foreign-aid-cuts-pose-threat-to-development-in-latin-america/ The proposed budget cuts for the 2018 fiscal year would slash current foreign aid funding (which makes up less than 1 percent of the budget) by one-third. If the cuts are approved by Congress, U.S. funds for foreign assistance would reach levels not seen since the 1970s and 1990s. Foreign policy experts warn that the cuts would be felt deeply by countries across Latin America and the Caribbean. In 2016, the United States provided more than $1 billion in development aid to countries in the Western Hemisphere. The draft budget seeks to reduce that figure by almost 40 percent, zeroing out funding for development programs in the region’s most economically stressed countries – El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Brazil, Paraguay and Peru, among others.
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    UN and ForeignAid • http://news.nationalpost.com/opinion/geoffrey-clarfield-the-united-nations-is-losing- staggering-sums-to-corruption-mismanagement-and-bad-decision-making National Post – June 15, 2017
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    Palestine and Funding Source- http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/266645/palestinian-authority-boss-refuses-stop-funding-daniel-greenfield The Palestinian Authority provides salaries to convicted terrorists and to the families of dead terrorists, including Hamas. A sizable portion of the PA budget, which is funded by foreign aid, a lot of it coming from us, goes to funding terrorism. The PA has made it very clear that it will go on funding terrorism. Abbas shouldn't have been rewarded with a trip to meet with Trump until he committed to ending those payments. There should be no talk of further negotiations until the PA stops funding terrorism. The Islamic terror funded by the Palestinian Authority and Abbas hasn't just killed Israelis or even just American Jews, but Americans who happened to be there when a terrorist struck.
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    PM – JustinTrudeau / Foreign Aid Source - https://www.spencerfernando.com/2017/05/25/globalist-trudeau-gives-billions-foreign-aid-53-reserves-lack-real-fire-protection/ Spencer Fernando – May 25, 2017
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    Canada and ForeignAid • Source - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38573559 Ottawa came less than halfway to meeting international spending benchmarks in those areas. The Global Canada study uses those two funding areas to measure a country's global engagement. The analysis also suggests Canada's level of spending on international assistance as a share of GDP is close to an all-time low. Mr Trudeau made "Canada is back" a catchphrase after winning the federal election in 2015 and promised a new era of global engagement. Global Canada founder Robert Greenhill, a former president of the federal development agency, said that Canada is not back, it is "far back". "We actually don't believe in doing our fair share at this point," he said.
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    Blog – ForeignAid • UN does little to enforce oversight when it comes to foreign aid – Here are a few examples: • The United Nations is losing staggering sums to corruption, mismanagement and bad decision-making ” http://nationalpost.com/opinion/geoffrey-clarfield-the-united-nations-is- losing-staggering-sums-to-corruption-mismanagement-and-bad-decision-making “ • UN and corruption - https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/how-corrupt-is-the- united-nations/ • “The cost of corruption to society is enormous. In its 2017 report, Global Financial Integrity estimates that illicit financial flows (IFFs) in 2014 alone ranged from US$1.4 trillion to $2.5 trillion. The World Economic Forum estimates that the cost of corruption today equals more than 5 percent of global GDP ($2.6 trillion).”http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/blog/2017/fighting-corruption-for- global-peace--development-and-security.html • Hamas/Foreign Aid - http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/en/21183/ • Somalia - https://fee.org/articles/how-foreign-aid-hurts-famine-relief-in-somalia/ Summary: • The bottom line is the UN has failed to ensure foreign aid is getting to the most needed people in the world
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    Alexandre Trudeau (Justin Trudeau’s Brother http://www.neveragaincanada.ca/justin-trudeaus-brother-and- political-advisor-works-with-iran-to-help-its-nuclear-program/ AlexandreTrudeau, son of late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, and brother and senior political adviser to Liberal leadership candidate Justin, has been working with the Iranian government to create propaganda to whitewash its nuclear arms program. PressTV, the Iranian state-owned propaganda organ, was a co-producer of the documentary The New Great Game,which was produced and directed by Alexandre Trudeau. According to Honest Reporting Canada Executive Director Mike Fegelman, in the film, the Liberal MP’s brother “reports that Iran’s atomic ambitions are for “defensive” purposes only,serving as an effective “deterrent” against Israeli”aggression” and belligerence
  • 30.
    https://en.mehrnews.com/news/130219/Iran-Canada-to-hold-meeting-at-expert-level Iran's foreign ministryspokesman said on Wednesday that Canada and Iran will hold another meeting at expert level to discuss consular services to Iranian citizens and Canadians in both Tehran and Canada adding “the first step will be the establishment of an embassy’s foreign interest section.” Bahram Ghasemi, Iran Foreign Ministry Spokesman said that given the new developments in today’s world and the Canadian government readiness, they can take more steps in that regard. Ghasemi hoped for better relations between the two countries, saying “we hope that the Canadian Government now sees Iran's effective role in combating terrorism and stabilizing the region, and considers Iranians’ effective presence in Canada, as a highly educated community,” adding “we ca take more steps to improve bilateral relations.” 1. Trudeau’s brother has visited Iran many times including making a documentary - http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/mike-fegelman/alexandre-trudeau_b_2018038.html 2. Both Israel and Saudi Arabia have voiced concerns about Iran, especially their nuclear weapons capability - https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/17/israel-and-saudi-arabia- forging-ties-could-mean-war-with-iran-commentary.html 3. Most people that applied for refugee status from a country do not go back and visit it - http://torontosun.com/2016/10/21/monsef-visit-to-iran-raises- questions/wcm/335019b0-be60-4c04-8d75-3120bac628c9 (Maryam Monsef went back to Iran in 2014) 4. Omer Alghabra met with Iranian officials - http://www.iccongress.ca/tags/omar_alghabra . Omer is key member of Trudeau’s foreign affairs team - http://torontosun.com/2017/07/12/when-canada-meets-with-the-islamic-world-whos-calling-the-shots/wcm/ae7a2db4-4b36-4cef-958f-d4c224d74471. It also appears tha Omar has direct ties to Syria - https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/syrian-canadian-mp-omar-alghabras-story-is-one-shared-by-millions/article37464252/ 5. Trump de-certified the nuclear deal with Iran - http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/10/13/trump-iran-strategy-full-speech.cnn Iran and Russia back Assad - http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/04/russia-iran-vow-continued-military-support-assad-170408184313230.html Saudi Arabia and Iran are feuding over the middle east - https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/20/saudi-arabia-and-irans-conflict-in-yemen.html Iran won a UN seat on Women’s right council https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/25/iran-wins-seat-un-body-presses-womens-rights/ - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/29/world/middleeast/iran-saudi-women.html?mtrref=www.google.ca&gwh=BC701760FA51B20292CBB007835C4FDB&gwt=pay 6. Trudeau calls himself a feminist - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/justin-trudeau-men-feminist-movement-stick-up-women-sexism-canada-prime- minister-a7960196.html. Yet Trudeau says little about countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran when it comes to women’s right 7. USA and NATO on Iran - https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/06/nato-warn-son-us-approach-to-iran-terror-threat-and-nuclear-compliance.html. I would suspect that Trump w get hard with NATO in terms of funding. USA is big contributor to NATO. Blog - Iran
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    Millionaires /UN Source -http://nationalpost.com/opinion/geoffrey-clarfield-the-united-nations-is- losing-staggering-sums-to-corruption-mismanagement-and-bad-decision-making
  • 32.
    Bottom Line • Foreignaid is not getting to people. https://globalnews.ca/news/2718195/canada-offers-331-5m-in- global-humanitarian-aid-at-summit-in-istanbul/ • We need to help people that is role of the UN, but UN needs to clean up corruption within its’ agencies as well as put into place more oversight to ensure the moneys is getting to programs that support food, water management and Medicine • Charitable Agencies need to face more scrutiny to ensure moneys are not tied up with administration - https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo- way/2017/08/30/547435136/red-cross-exec-doesn-t-know- what-portion-of-donations-will-go-directly-to-harvey

Editor's Notes

  • #6 http://www.dictionary.com/browse/foreign-aid
  • #7 http://www.globalissues.org/article/35/foreign-aid-development-assistance
  • #9 Source - http://www.cheatsheet.com/culture/ranking-worlds-corrupt-countries.html/?a=viewall
  • #13 http://www.budget.gc.ca/2016/docs/plan/ch6-en.html
  • #14 http://cidpnsi.ca/canadas-foreign-aid-2012-2/
  • #15 http://www.oecd.org/development/development-aid-stable-in-2014-but-flows-to-poorest-countries-still-falling.htm
  • #16 https://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2014/04/29/fraud-corruption-ate-most-of-1-5-billion-america-spent-on-rebuilding-haiti-after-earthquake/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/haiti-aid-continues-as-canada-calls-for-elections-1.2893992
  • #17 http://www.thetower.org/3101-how-hamas-uses-foreign-aid-to-enrich-itself-and-bilk-gazans/ http://www.thetower.org/3101-how-hamas-uses-foreign-aid-to-enrich-itself-and-bilk-gazans/
  • #18 http://www.business-anti-corruption.com/country-profiles/sub-saharan-africa/mali.aspx or http://www.irinnews.org/report/98528/analysis-mali%E2%80%99s-aid-problem
  • #22 http://www.mcleodgroup.ca/2016/06/29/opaque-transparency-in-canadas-foreign-aid/