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Conclusion: Le monde que nous souhaitons

Thank you for participating in the Dialogue on Foreign Policy. The interactive web site is now closed. The Minister's report will appear on this web site once it is released.

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Participant: James

Date: 2003-02-07 14:36:22


Canada continues to be highly protective in areas that could be of great benefit to poor people in Third World countries, such as dairy and poultry imports and textiles.
Canadian jobs and businesses might suffer if we relax trade restrictions in these areas and in some cases these are our poorest, most vulnerable citizens - for example, working in poultry processing plants and for textile manufacturers. These Canadians need attention as part of a Canadian policy to relax import barriers.

Far more could/should be done in the area of research and development, particularly agricultural research. Much of the Canadian research agenda is now being driven by the private sector, as in Agriculture Canada's Matching Initiatives Incentive program. These kinds of programs ought to be opened up to matching money/initiatives from the NGO and global aid sector, and the NGOs ought to be encouraged to set aside part of their budgets for R&D to address pressing issues for poor people in Third World countries.

More government resources should be made available to NGOs, especially the Christian organizations.

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Participant: cfallon

Date: 2003-02-07 15:42:26


I agree. Our best means of helping the 3rd world is by opening our markets, particularly, to agricultural products. We need to help them where we can in developing technologies that produce active and vital crops.

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Participant: fatmomma

Date: 2003-03-03 22:59:06


What poor country has food to export; their people are starving. They may need help learning to grow or raise food to feed themselves but not for export. Where did you come up with these ideas. Textiles could be a possibility. We do import many textiles. I am a drycleaner and very few textiles are manufactured in Canada or the USA; Too expensive so we import.

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Participant: cfallon

Date: 2003-03-04 15:03:16


Lots of poor contries have agriculture:

Zimbabwe used to be the breadbasket of Africa and could return to that position one day. And it's not the only country in Africa with fertile land.

South America is blessed with great expanses of fertile land.

Being poor does not mean starving. This is a mis-conception.

Either way, I agree, importing textiles from the 3rd world would help as well.

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Participant: fatmomma

Date: 2003-03-09 22:05:22


Zimbabwe "used to be"
What does poor mean to you. If they can feed themselves, cloth themselves.
only other possible necessity is medicine or better variety of food.We are always being asked to help feed these countries.
We import products we need. Why should we import poultry or dairy food. If they produce a product not available in Canada and it meets our standards. Some products, some countries can carry pests or disease that threaten native crops.

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